- Tech stack is outdated
- "best practices" used at Xero are VERY outdated
- dev pace is extremely slow
- expect to spend a lot of time maintaining a lot of services that provide very little functionality and are heavily over engineered
- expect to spend a substantial amount of time documenting what you did so you can prove that you did it in your performance review, rather than focusing on actual code
- the quality of code for 'modernised' apps is painful
- engineers spend more time discussing nitpicks and how to name a variable appropriately rather than shipping code
- expect to have substantial back and forth conversations that seem to exist for the sake of existing instead of actually working on the product
- simply getting to ship code is inordinately slow
- the performance rating process is easily the worst i have seen in many decades of tech. do not bother working on things that won't contribute to your goals, you will not be rewarded for those activities.
- they will gaslight you and say its not stack ranking. it is.
- obsession with putting AI in every business process for the sake of putting it in,
the company is suffering from the same homogenization that US 'big tech' is following. the culture here is no different from other big blue tech companies. and the pay is worse than a lot of them.
