Consider Carefully Before Joining – It's Turning into a Disaster Here - Engineer Xero Employee Review

1.0
Mar 11, 2025
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. - Extra leaves

Cons

Engineers are expected to wear multiple hats—scrum master, product owner, delivery manager, release manager, devops, QA, architect, documenter, risk manager, and even handle after-hours support—while dealing with layers of management constantly asking for more work or questions. There’s been no salary increase in the last three years, despite performance reviews being treated so seriously that it feels like employees are forced to focus only on proving themselves, leaving little room for team building. The environment is selfish, and higher management tends to favor long-standing staff, while newer employees are at risk of being let go under the guise of performance issues. I wouldn’t recommend a junior or mid-level developer to join here. They only seem interested in hiring experts and have little regard for those still growing in their careers.

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Pros

Great culture and solid benefits

Cons

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Pros

Xero has a great product and a lot of very passionate employees who work very hard for their customers.

Cons

The executive leadership at Xero is creating a toxic, backstabbing culture that promotes yes-men at the expense of honest dialogue. It's impossible to make decisions at the company, and multiple rounds of layoffs are leaving all employees shell shocked and fearful. Marketing teams are under-resourced while more demands are constantly being placed on teams to do more. When constraints are communicated, employees are blamed for them, rather that listened to. Multiple colleagues have said the same thing. Additionally, management has instituted a 'rank and yank' policy where everyone is graded on a forced curve, where the bottom quarter are immediately put on a PIP.

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