Good, But Becoming Less So - Engineer Xero Employee Review

3.0
Mar 22, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Great teams and nice people - Decent salary - Great benefits including extra annual leave - Values focused (though less than in the past) - Nice to support small businesses

Cons

- Management is becoming increasingly disconnected from the realities of software development - Recent intense focus on system reliability creates bureaucracy and reduces productivity - New systems intended to increase employee performance lower moral and discourage personal development goals - It appears that small scale layoffs are still happening, including recently laying off all architects despite engineers strongly believing we need them - Company morale is declining with recent changes

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5.0
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Pros

Great culture and solid benefits

Cons

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Jun 30, 2026
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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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