Right place, right time - Front End Developer Xero Employee Review

5.0
2 Nov 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Authentic people from all over the world working towards a common goal with positive outlook. People are dedicated to producing a quality product and to have fun in the process. Leadership is down to earth. Flat org composition - it's easy to communicate with anybody including chief officers (this is impressive considering the company just reached 1000 employees).

Cons

Xero comes pretty close to not having any cons. I have no personal issues. We're facing growing pains as a company. Sometimes timezones can be difficult (NZ, AU, US, UK), but it's never a blocker.

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Pros

Great culture and solid benefits

Cons

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1.0
30 Jun 2026
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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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