Does Xero pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Xero employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.6 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Xero. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Xero?

56% of Xero employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Xero 3.6 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.3 for culture and values and 3.1 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Xero?

Software Engineer (95) , Customer Experience Specialist (89) , Senior Software Engineer (67) , Account Manager (60) , Product Manager (45) , Software Developer (34) , Senior Account Manager (28) , Senior Engineer (28) , Engineer (23) , Sales (22) , Product Designer (19) , Developer (16) , Lead Engineer (15) , Intern (14) , Partner Consultant (14)

What are the pros of working at Xero according to real employee reviews?

"Xero has a great culture which trusts its employees and gives them space and authority to do their best work." ((in 292 reviews)); "Great people to work with Free vending machine and fruit Lots of cool events and Friday drinks Up to date tech to use for working" ((in 236 reviews)); "Good Benefits and snacks and close to a subway station in the middle of the city." ((in 74 reviews)); "Great teams and nice people" ((in 64 reviews)); "Great office to work in with quite a few bonuses" ((in 39 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Xero according to real employee reviews?

"Micro management What’s was cool and special before are being taken away" ((in 61 reviews)); "Senior leadership are so overconfident in their decisions that they get visibly angry when questioned about their laughably poor decisions" ((in 51 reviews)); "Pay is low compared to australia" ((in 45 reviews)); "No Career Progression or its not clear enough" ((in 39 reviews)); "Many managers appear more invested in their own visibility and advancement than in the growth or wellbeing of their teams." ((in 37 reviews))

What are employees saying about Xero layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Xero layoffs and their outlook for job security at Xero in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Xero locations?

Denver , San Francisco , New York , San Mateo , San Jose , Oklahoma City , Houston , Cleveland , Los Angeles , Colorado Springs , Wellington , Portland , Atlanta

Xero reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(1,651 total reviews)

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

48% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Diversity & inclusion

3.6

Work/Life balance

3.6

Compensation and benefits

3.3

Culture & values

3.1

Career opportunities

2.8

Senior management

Xero has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,651 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Xero employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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Reviews by job title

2K reviews

1.0

Oct 14, 2024

Underutilised quota-filling role

Team leader

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible work-arrangement, great salary and benefits.

Cons

Impossible vision, preferential treatments, bleeding money, humanless approach. Prepare to be highly underutilised and hire people based on gender quota. Probably the worst company I ever worked for.

1.0

Sep 4, 2024

No longer a leader in technology

Lead engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Great people, really helpful and human. - Good WFH policy with lots of perks when you come into the office. - Good product that most customers really appreciate using. - Great to get experience with multiple areas of software development

Cons

- Lack of strong technology leadership and direction, no CTO and years of focus on product means changes have been mostly cosmetic and additive. - Changing role expectations after reset, instead of change management or supporting employees through this transition, company policy seems to be to use performance management to achieve compliance. - Engineers are expected to take on role of scrum master, product owner, delivery manager, release manager, devops, QA, architect, document, risk manage, organise and configure after hours support, etc. while the multiple layers of management on top are also constantly asking questions or to do work for them. - Complex and old code with lots of tech debt and little time to do coding or learn the codebases (see above point). - Moving away from teams assigned to a product, to teams working on next highest priority project, which could be in a different domain, and most domains are already full of tech debt with little consistency.

2.0

Jan 21, 2024

I'd avoid if I were you.

Global sales enablement manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good remuneration package and benefits

Cons

Zero job security, organisation changes despite fantastic contributions.

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