Good for coasting and work/life balance, lacking in pretty much every other regard - Software Engineer Xero Employee Review

2.0
Sep 27, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great allowance of PTO/wellness days - Management seems genuinely interested in mental health and burnout - Lots of opportunity to move horizontally across the company - Co-workers are nice and eager to help

Cons

A lot of people just coast. No real deadlines or targets on most projects. The general engineering standards are pretty low (lots of manual processes, not much testing, tons of issues in production). Xero has a culture of bureaucracy and having meetings for meeting's sake. A lot of time is wasted on attending worthless meetings, filling out documents that don't get looked at, or waiting on other teams to take days to respond to you. Lower management is pretty toxic, middle management seems incompetent or outright unconcerned with the time wasted here. The work in general is mind numbing.

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5.0
Apr 24, 2026
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Pros

Great culture and solid benefits

Cons

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5.0
Mar 28, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Awesome work culture. You get to meet everyone from every team in the company. Every one are so helpful. Even the people from different teams will help you to achieve your tasks. Even the managers are so helpful. Perks: Wednesday Lunch, Friday Happy hours.

Cons

I haven't faced anything negative in the company.

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