Great place to be - Anonymous employee Xero Employee Review

5.0
20 Dec 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Xero is one of the few New Zealand companies where you get genuine exposure to other markets, which is a great experience as well as paving the way for international careers. There are always opportunities advertised for career progression, very facilitating to people who want to travel and work. There are a lot of great people that work here and there is still the culture of flat structure where senior people are more than happy to spend time to help others learn and grow. Great modern offices, also a worldwide share scheme which ties employees to the vision of the company, genuine sense of ownership around the organisation. Exciting to see what is still to come.

Cons

Growing at an unsustainable rate, deteriorating culture and often at the expense of exceptional employees. Bit of uncertainty on recent senior management changes.

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

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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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