Company details

HEADCOUNT

100-499

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Real Estate & Built Environment

WEBSITE

https://www.xyzreality.com

About the company

XYZ Reality builds augmented reality and project controls tools for construction, centred on the Atom hardhat and the company’s platform for validating and tracking work against BIM models on live sites. XYZ Reality has positioned the business around “field application engineers” deployed on major projects, especially in data centre construction. XYZ Reality has published operational milestones like surpassing 100,000 hours worked onsite and described a team size in the low-120s in 2024. XYZ Reality has also raised venture funding across multiple rounds, including a £20m Series A announced in 2021.

Locations and presence

XYZ Reality lists a London (Angel, Clerkenwell) address and a US address in Dallas, with project delivery roles frequently tied to client sites across the UK, Ireland, mainland Europe, and the US. Many early-career-friendly roles are on-site by nature, with travel or relocation expectations made explicit in role requirements.

Palpable Score

60.8

/ 100

XYZ Reality offers a very clear early-career route in project delivery through graduate and junior surveying roles with stated training, responsibilities, and pay bands. The score is pulled down by repeated public interview feedback about slow follow-up and unclear assessments, plus limited public evidence on junior retention and progression.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

14.4

/ 20

The company advertises a Graduate or Junior Construction Surveying Engineer pathway that explicitly accepts fresh graduates or up to 2–3 years’ experience.
XYZ Reality has also posted junior product roles like Junior UX Researcher and junior engineering roles like Junior Unity Engineer in public job boards used by graduates.
The company’s visible early-career access is concentrated in a few tracks (field delivery, junior product, junior commercial), rather than a broad spread across every function.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

10.1

/ 20

The company’s public interview feedback includes repeated complaints about delayed responses and candidates being left without closure after tasks or later stages.
XYZ Reality has also published a stated minimum structure for hiring that includes an initial screen, a technical interview, and a senior leadership conversation, which is a solid baseline when applied consistently.
The company’s seniority expectations can be clear in job ads, but assessment scoping and time-bounding for candidate tasks is not consistently visible in postings, which raises the burden risk for early-career applicants.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

13.4

/ 20

The company explicitly promises “full training” for Field Application Engineer style roles, which matters when the job includes specialist kit and workflows like the Atom and site inspection reporting.
XYZ Reality also frames day-to-day support in junior surveying roles through reporting lines to a Senior Engineer and working alongside other Field Application Engineers to keep workflows moving.
The company does not publicly show a repeatable early-career development framework across teams (for example a defined onboarding ramp, mentoring scheme, or promotion checkpoints), so learning support looks strong in delivery roles and harder to verify elsewhere.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

13.2

/ 20

The company publishes clear pay bands for some early-career roles, including a Graduate or Junior Construction Surveying Engineer band and a separate construction surveying engineer band on another posting.
XYZ Reality also lists stability-focused basics in public materials like health cover and 5 weeks’ holiday plus extra Christmas days, which are meaningful for first-job applicants weighing risk.
The company does not show salary ranges consistently across the wider role set, so pay fairness is easier to judge for surveying and harder to judge for many other functions.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

9.7

/ 20

The company’s public employee review profile is mixed, with a low overall rating and a minority recommending the company to a friend, which adds risk for early-career retention.
XYZ Reality has published operational growth signals like expanding team size and large volumes of onsite delivery time, but the company does not publish junior outcomes like intern-to-full-time conversion, promotion rates, or 12–24 month retention.
The company’s LinkedIn footprint suggests an established mid-sized startup (not a tiny team), but LinkedIn patterns alone cannot confirm early-career progression quality without corroborating internal outcome data.