Becoming a corporate machine - Developer Xero Employee Review

2.0
27 Jun 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free drinks, etc. Work colleagues are great. Video games, and other stuff you'd expect from a modern tech company that is trying to pretend it's still a start up.

Cons

Has scaled very poorly in the past few years, and beginning to feel like a poorly managed corporate monster with ever-changing c-team. Non-competitive pay (in NZ). Lack of autonomy and constant meddling by senior execs towards development teams really defeats the purpose of #ownership. CEO constantly makes embarrassing and lout-ish comments. Comes across as very intolerant. Very poor communication between US and NZ team has led to a large amount of animosity and poor development practices.

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Xero Response
10y
Sorry to hear you feel this way and I absolutely agree any signs of being the corporate monster you describe should be quashed! Given the rate of growth we've experienced it's unavoidable that there will be times where we miss the mark, adapt and improve. I see lots of examples of great teams, communication and increasing autonomy, so am confident we're on the right track. Thanks for the feedback

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