Xero reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(1,640 total reviews)
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Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

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44% positive business outlook

Xero has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,640 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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2.0
Sep 18, 2019

Could be great, but far more frustrations than opportunities

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Pros

- The people you work with day to day are great, the #1 reason that I do enjoy my job is my colleagues. - Standard tech company perks: snacks and drinks, pool table, one catered breakfast and one catered lunch a week. - Nice office location in Denver: walking distance to Union Station, easy to get to from I-25.

Cons

- Advancement opportunities don’t go to in region team members. Often people are brought over from NZ and AU to take senior management roles, and often they weren’t in senior management roles before. - Additionally, there is often no career plan or opportunity for career progression for many roles. - Lots of politics, hard to cut through and get work done when people in the US care more about their appearance and global teams care more controlling their spheres of influence and proving they’re needed. - Recently downsized and lost a lot of staff that support the sales team but we continue to grow the sales team. Very hard to keep up with expectations when more people are asking you for help but you aren’t getting more help yourself. - Seems like there is a culture that prohibits people from asking for help; lots of people pretending to know what to do but don’t want to ask for help even though people are willing to help out.

2.0
Aug 8, 2019
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Pros

-Exceptional work/life balance -Great office -Very much a family environment

Cons

Xero is a company which prides itself on its inside out culture, autonomy, and being #human. Sadly, there has been a major shift in 2019 with new leadership in place for US sales in which Xero has lost those values the company goes at great length to provide to its employees. Morale for US sales people has been extremely low since the leadership change and people are dropping like flies. The new leadership has taken fear based tactics, such as secretly auditing everyone’s calls at random which is not exactly motivating. Wouldn’t a better approach be to tell individual contributors management will be shadowing you to provide feedback on your calls? Further, senior sales leadership has been way too hands on with individual contributors instead of letting middle management run the show. Unfortunately, a lot of this can be justified due to Xero struggling mightily to gain any significant traction in the US. The company is absolutely nowhere near its sales targets in the US while the other markets carry the ship afloat. Things have gotten to the point in the US where 2/3rds of the San Francisco office were laid off, as were other sales staff in the Midwest. There is a growing fear that others will follow suit should Xero continue to struggle here. Overall, if you are considering joining Xero in New Zealand, Australia, England, Canada, or Singapore, you will find unparalleled growth opportunities in a surging business. However if you are considering joining Xero in a sales capacity in the US, I strongly urge you to stay clear and look elsewhere.

3.0
Aug 20, 2018

Product Manager

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Flexible hours, fun events, company is trying to provide additional benefits for employees like training etc.

Cons

environments is not very collaborative, top heavy, lack of autonomy, very political. your success depends on how well you know the people in New Zealand

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