Future looks good - Anonymous employee Xero Employee Review

4.0
19 Jan 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

In the Australian office there's lots of smart and nice people. Australian Leadership give us plenty of opportunity to get noticed. Everyone is friendly. Great place to work. Fantastic office space. Incredible people. Cool perks. Amazing product. Incredible future assuming we innovate in the right way.

Cons

Lots of people take the flexible culture for granted. There's some laziness creeping in and in some parts there's little accountability. Makes it hard sometime. Executive leadership not removing roadblocks where they can / should. Effective decision making process lacks and this inhibits speed of execution. Far too many ego's...w. certain product teams getting away with murder (or feature for the sake of feature...that's the perception).

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