Axon reviews

- In 2+ years in my team, I haven't seen a single colleague receive a promotion or raise above 3-4% (team of 6 analysts - and yes, we openly talk about our salaries). - Recently Axon "re-branded" our job titles, while the real reason was not disclosed, we later found out it was a move to basically offer a lower pay to new hires for that same role. - While this may not be applicable on all teams, my direct manager micromanaged a LOT. We were constantly asked to provide updates, have excessive meetings, document everything we did, and fill out several useless forms before we could actually do the work needed for our projects. - don't expect to get anything beyond a 3-4% raise. Axon, understandably so, places employees on a bell curve to determine performance -- everyone I ever spoke in my team has always been rated in the same performance category, receiving the same % increase every year. Meanwhile, every C-Suite exec has tens of millions in stock grants, definitely the largest employee to exec gap I've seen from all the places I worked for. - Get ready to work on weekends/afterhours. I've gotten texts from my manager on Saturdays at 10pm.

As some other reviews have mentioned, the Organization is extremely sales-focused, and rewards sloppy and inappropriate behavior, as long as it results in a sale. Then, Finance and other administrative teams are expected to deal with the sloppiness and all of the headaches that it creates, no matter what it takes. The end result is extremely long hours and ZERO work-life balance for those teams. The group that I worked in was very focused and everyone seemed to have the best of intentions, but the support from upper management was severely lacking. Additionally, within the department, the work seemed to be very unevenly distributed, with certain people working all of the time while others seemed to spend alot of time chatting, gossiping and even drinking in the office regularly. The Controller encouraged and even participated in that behavior, so I got the impression that was normal and expected, but it seemed very abnormal to me. There were quite a few times where I, and members of my team, worked extreme hours to meet deadlines, while others spent a lot of time drinking and goofing off, which made it very difficult to stay motivated. There was a dependency on outside contractors just to keep up with all the work, but it sometimes caused some confusion regarding reporting relationships, and it occasionally seemed like the contractors were treated better than actual employees - which also seemed abnormal to me. Overall, I probably would not recommend this Company for Finance folks, unless you enjoy working ALOT of hours, or you’re an alcoholic - then you’d fit in perfectly.