XYB Reviews

2.7

36% would recommend to a friend

(17 total reviews)

Derek Joyce

52% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

XYB has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 17 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The XYB employee rating is 27% below average for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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17 reviews
1.0
29 Nov 2025

Toxic leadership, no direction, and no runway

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A handful of strong individual contributors doing their best in an impossible environment.

Cons

The company is fundamentally held back by disorganised and toxic leadership, especially from the American contingent. Strategic direction changes all the time with no clear plan, no validated customer demand, and little to show after more than a year of development. There is no funding runway and no communication about what comes next. Employees are kept in dark until things reach crisis. It creates constant anxiety internally. The executive team is deeply toxic. The UK side doesn’t do much, while “leadership” from the US side brings a very different tone - one that feels dismissive, rude, political, and at extremely toxic. Decisions are made without context, and accountability is nonexistent. It makes people feel gaslighted, unsafe psychologically and unable to do their best work. We heard that the American side of the business could tank a deal with being rude to customers and then blame others. No accountability. Toxic. The CEO does not provide direction or urgency. The lack of clarity trickles down and leaves teams guessing what matters week to week. Despite big claims about customers wanting to sign up, there are still no customers at all. , and the lack of traction is increasingly impossible to ignore.

2.0
15 July 2025

Tic-tac tic-tac... Money is running out...

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Semi work from home / remote work

Cons

Running out of money, maybe the company last for an extra month until August 2025? There is no actual product and no one is using it. Nonsense changes like team structure Squeezing top engineers with the promise of option shares Not very collaborative They don't use good industry practices Fake it till you make it / Building the plane while flying it mentality from the leadership, specially the american part.

4.0
29 June 2025
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Pros

Friendly employees and very interesting tech stack.

Cons

Management could have been a bit better and more information could have been shared.

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