Xero Reviews
Updated 25 May 2019
Found 328 reviews
"Amazing project and good work environment" (in 30 reviews)
"Awesome team support and work-life balance" (in 29 reviews)
"Middle management are trying to prove their worth and all this does is disrupt employees" (in 16 reviews)
"Still experiencing some growing pains, but none that it can't handle" (in 13 reviews)
"Best company I have worked for"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Xero full-time for more than a year
Pros
- Good Salary - Good culture - Career Growth - Lots of benefits - Employees are looked after
Cons
- Lots of processes within our work - Late shifts to cover the queues, but can be negotiated
Advice to Management
Keep doing what you're doing in the team.
Xero2019-05-16- Helpful (4)
"Gone are the good days"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Xero full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Great facilities and very casual workplace. You don't have to think about what to wear everyday. Employees get new company tshirts every year. Employees share scheme for permanent employees, but only fully allocated after three years working there. The product used to be number one in the market and used to sell itself.
Cons
Leadership team (especially in AU) has become quite toxic in recent last couple of years. There are way too many gossips around the company now (because you can't really talk openly anymore) with new managers trying to bring their mates in etc... People don't get promoted for being good at what they do. All promotions happen either in Sydney or Melbourne, a lot of the times you wouldn't even know what roles are up for...
Show MoreAdvice to Management
No point since they're no longer listening. Let's see how long current leadership team will stay on and the results will speak for itself.
Xero2019-05-15 "Senior Account Manager"
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Positive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Xero full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Great Flexibility and autonomy.
Cons
career progression is minimal
Xero2019-04-30"Junior Analyst"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Xero full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Great place to work. Awesome :)
Cons
It is all good every day
Xero2019-04-30- Helpful (1)
"Great place overall to work for, but need to invest more on managers"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Xero full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Great values, especially #human, that the vast majority of the employees, middle managers, leadership team (including the CEO) tend to follow. Wonderful co-workers. Good work/life balance. Interesting challenges, both operational (moving from start-up to mid-size company) and strategic (building new technologies to deliver new experiences). Still small enough for most people to interact with various parts of the...
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Managers, managers, managers: They are the reason people stay and people leave. The new manager training and ongoing support is really not good enough to create a consistent culture of great managers, which results in some poor decisions due to inconsistencies and inexperience. There are some bad apples in senior management who act like the company values and overall good management practices don't apply to them. ...
Show MoreAdvice to Management
Improve your manager training and ongoing support, to include how to deliver on the company strategy and priorities at all levels of management. Aggressively weed out the bad apples, especially the ones in senior management, who can have a huge negative impact on the whole company. Treat your geographically dispersed offices like the advantage that they are, and bring best practices into the HQ, rather than export bad...
Show MoreXero2019-04-13 - Helpful (1)
"Working at Xero"
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI have been working at Xero full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Excellent place to learn the ropes if starting off in the field. Really good flexible hours.
Cons
Lack of forward mobility. Few internal promotions esp for people who go through the grad program - would rather hire external engineers to fill in senior and leadership roles. Hard to find a reason to stay after a couple of years.
Xero2019-04-27 "#human place to work"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Xero full-time for more than a year
Pros
Quality of people, personal alignment with values, ability to make an impact on customers, everyone's viewpoint is heard
Cons
growing pains, internal alignment not always there
Advice to Management
Keep the values foremost. Culture will change over time and that's probably a good thing as it gets bigger and harder to co-ordinate, but the underlying values are why people come here to do the best work of their lives.
Xero2019-04-08"Lots of opportunities for the right people"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Xero part-time
Pros
Growing company with lots of jobs. Social events and progressive outlook.
Cons
Is accounting software which isn’t exciting for many people.
Advice to Management
There’s so much growth happening but try not to lose sight of the people who are already there and potentially under utilised.
Xero2019-04-09"Empowering place to contribute to have your work matter"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Xero full-time for more than a year
Pros
Highly engaged teams wanting & willing everyone to contribute. Regardless of business unit, office location the culture and vibe is same. Smart, positive people making an impact
Cons
Scalability problems caused by hyper growth holding us back from achieving even more; common Saas growth issues
Advice to Management
Be laser focussed on what’s most important as there’s a big blue sky of things we can achieve
Xero2019-03-19- Helpful (1)
"Great place to work"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Xero for more than 5 years
Pros
- Incredibly supportive team - Great managers - You get to work with some amazing technologies - No other tech jobs in Canberra like it
Cons
Nothing that I can think of
Xero2018-08-29