Steady decline - Lead Engineer Xero Employee Review

2.0
25 Jul 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Xero has had a pretty solid work culture particularly in the engineering space. Empathetic leaders and great opportunities for growth. Not anymore

Cons

Whilst we're being told that the net nPS score will slide or is expected when a major restructure happens, this is just the executive leadership making themselves feel better. You can see the slide in Glassdoor overall score start to really decline from late last year and coincide with new CEO joining and starting to bring on US leadership in product. Change can be good, put the fundamentals of what made Xero so great are declining dramatically. The recent restructures were shambolic, great leaders were let go and questionable appointments were made particularly in engineering. It's just demoralising and next level nepotism. Senior leadership appears out of sync as they figure out how this will all work, treating people like numbers ain't going to end well. There are still some super smart engineers I know of hanging around until their next opportunity. Good luck attracting talent guys

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Pros

Great culture and solid benefits

Cons

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Recommend
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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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