Free snacks can't outweigh toxic management and instability - Customer Experience Specialist Xero Employee Review

1.0
23 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Free drinks Free food Sometimes a reward cupboard visit

Cons

CEO is destroying the company. Now doing tier systems and pushing out staff. Micromanaged Putting people who have been there for years on PIP to push them out Toxic management who spread gossip Lies and negativity throughout the company No progression No flexibility

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Pros

Great culture and solid benefits

Cons

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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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