Good teams held back by micro management - Anonymous employee Xero Employee Review

2.0
18 May 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great team culture and work life balance. Pay is okay. Our product is exciting work but with unnecessary challenges.

Cons

Terrible micro managing from team leads and engineering managers. Decision making takes far too long for simple things that can be resolved with a quick conversation. We have some pretty technical team leads that sometimes forget their role should be people focused rather than trying to play engineering or architects they impaired product development more than enable the engineering team members from delivering good solid work.

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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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