I had a mixed experience interviewing at Xero. The technical interview was enjoyable and conversational, but the process was overshadowed by poor communication from their internal recruiter. Emails often went unanswered, and key actions were delayed. A rejection email was mistakenly sent, causing unnecessary stress, and feedback after the rejection took 8 days to arrange, resulting in a 3-minute call that offered no meaningful insight. She was late to the feedback call and failed to send written feedback as promised in the timeframe. After a few nudges, I did eventually receive it. Overall, the lack of professionalism and communication negatively impacted my impression of Xero. Going forward I would not recommend and won’t be applying again, purely based on this person. I’ve also submitted detailed feedback to Xero about this.
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Nil, was rejected on CV submission with no reason given and no feedback despite meeting the criteria for the role, at least on paper. Very opaque process. Disappointed considering the reputation of the company.
It's quite easy. Just some questions about the general technologies. No tricky questions. But I've heard the experience also depends on team by team. They are large organization, so the culture is very mixed.
I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Xero
Interview
1st round 1 hour HR Screening.
2nd round 1 hour technical - coding on Hackerrank.
3rd round 1 hour system design on Hackerrank.
4th round 1 hour behavioural with hiring manager.
Unfortunately after a verbal offer following the 4th round there was a week of radio silence, followed by a phone call informing the role is no longer available due to team restructure/repurpose. Quite disappointing overall considering the amount of time you have to spend on the interview process. A hiring freeze before such a move is much more appropriate approach and ensures you won't waste time of candidates, engineers running the interviews and HR coordinating the whole process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you approach managing conflict in your team
Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Xero with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 13 days to get hired, when considering 9 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Xero overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Xero as a Senior Software Engineer according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 26%
Phone interview: 16%
One on one interview: 16%
Skills test: 16%
Personality test: 11%
Presentation: 11%
Drug test: 5%
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