Engineering is a sinking boat right now ⛵ - Software Engineer Xero Employee Review

1.0
13 Mar 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Overall work environment stills "OK", despite recent degrading in work experience. - Nice team members - Generous PTO policy (....so far)

Cons

- Sometimes I wonder if being unemployed would be a better choice than working here. - IMO They're actively trying hard to make you quit and morale is down across engineering teams - Senior leadership and engineers are moving out and looking for other jobs - Multiple layers of bureaucracy if you want to get a PR done. A 2 days of actual work can easily become 1-2 months. It seems like working for a slow bank. - Productivity squeeze mode: They're changing performance frameworks every couple of months: Now you'll have to keep track of everything you're doing to justify your work (instead of actually being focused in... you know, working?). This can potentially create an hostile competitive environment between your team long term. The message is clear: Engineers (especially highly paid ones) are not welcome anymore. This company will end up with team full of devs who have no other choice and are ok with a 30k/yr + a few raspberries salary.

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5.0
24 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great culture and solid benefits

Cons

Could be a bit chaotic at times

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1.0
30 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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