Axios reviews

Culture feels like it's deteriorating but nobody wants to admit or acknowledge it Top-heavy with too many middle managers Conflicting expectations/priorities from leadership Lack of direction/focus No clear path for upward mobility/career growth Not enough reporters to sustain newsletters — feels like you're drowning most days, especially if your co-writer is sick or on vacation

Like other media companies, the business has suffered over the last 1-2 years and the outlook is not improving; the company has had to react by cutting benefits and positions. Within the product/tech org, my experience found some teams better off, while others suffered long-term turnover issues stemming from poor leadership and nepotism; I found workplace politics rife and more important than actual contributions. Leaders allowed favoritism to obscure their judgement, overlooking rampant personnel performance issues and producing a toxic culture. My personal experience aside, given the outlook of the company and the news media industry in general, it's not worth pursuing a tech-related career here. Layoffs / role reductions, and people migrating to better jobs over the last year (across the company) also portends the silent killer of companies: brain drain. Your best employees leave for better opportunities, and eventually you're left with your worst performers, smaller teams doing more work, and new folks struggling to assemble enough context to course-correct a deteriorating culture/tech stack. Do you really want to step into that for the mediocre salary they've offered you? (Those layoffs in 2024 eliminated some of the higher-paid individuals, only for the same roles to be re-listed and backfilled with lower salaries)