Avoid unless you are fresh from school - Software Developer Xe Employee Review

1.0
8 Aug 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to start your career. Tons of things to learn, some good people still remain, and the office is pretty laidback and casual. Good benefits and salary and avoid traffic almost always.

Cons

Too much to note: 1) everyone is leaving or being fired. They say change is no good but it just seems they have no direction on where the company should head and just experimenting. Change is fine for a few years but it's been 4 years and counting. 2) many including myself do not trust the execs to have our back. They don't treat us with respect and expect us to be at our best performance without mistakes while they can casually make mistakes themselves without any consequences. 3) the Newmarket office have people leaving left and right. We may have had 1-2 people leave a year before the start of the year. As of right now, 10-12 people have left YTD. 4) I will advise to stay away unless you need a job in Newmarket at a fintech. Otherwise more opportunities in elsewhere 5) some work the dev teams do is either interesting and fun (rare now) or really long and outdated and dreadful. We have no time given to us to improvise and improve yet they expect us to be a tech first company. We are so slow now and our competitors are now flying past us.

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5.0
28 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great place to be. Work hard play hard.

Cons

Have to be able to ask your own questions and reach out for help.

2.0
10 Feb 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very active team communication, employee benefits

Cons

The HR team floods sites like these with positive reviews to drown out the slew of negative reviews that exist. You get hired to work for one company and end up responsible for that role across Xe, Ria, Dandelion, John Lewis, and whatever other brands they spontaniously absorb. Pay does not reflect work effort expected. Rely heavily on AI generated content with little to no sense checking. Denver office is NOT diverse. It's extremely clique-y and the price to enter the club is not worth the trouble. Xe and Ria are nepotism's best friends. They're unpredictable, make decisions that break downstream systems without care, and will radically change your responsibilities at the drop of a hat. Do not recommend.

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