Fired locals for cheap offshore workers - Senior Software Engineer Xero Employee Review

3.0
17 Sept 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The people are genuinely good, and smart. As you go higher up the org chart, that starts to change.

Cons

It's a very vertical company, many, many layers between the doers and the C-Suite. If you're managing managers of managers, what are you really contributing? They've been cutting US staff aggressively to replace them with cheap Australian workers. They asked my team if a new team could "shadow" us for a while.... then we were all cut a month later.

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5.0
24 Apr 2026
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Pros

Great culture and solid benefits

Cons

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3.0
30 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Impressive onboarding for new hires. Benefits incomparable to other organizations.

Cons

Pay not sustainable AI introduction caused layoffs for department No room for growth as other continents had priority instead of US candidates.

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