Pros
The best things about Xero are that you can work from home whenever you want and work remotely/overseas for a certain amount of days a year. There’s also an amazing culture in the product and developer teams, the best of anywhere I’ve worked.
Cons
So many. The never ending restructure has been appallingly handled with mixed messages, a very long process and endless confusion for months. Those of us who lost our jobs so far, were swept aside with no thought or reason, just a ruthless McKinsey cull of 15% of staff. Delivery has been non existent for months. Everyone I worked with is looking to leave, as the new CEO has made her ruthless US working style known. The only focus is major shareholders and share price. Staff remaining still don’t know if they have jobs and they’re having the workload of those who have left dumped on them. Pay is terrible, around 20% below other tech companies for the same roles and American employees earn staggeringly more than kiwis which is extremely disheartening. The worst thing is they’ll need to rehire almost everyone in a year or so as there’s so much work, but that’s SOP for a McKinsey reorg.