Axon reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(760 total reviews)
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Rick Smith

76% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Axon has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 760 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Axon employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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760 reviews
1.0
Aug 20, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

1. Comp structure 2. Company's Mission 3. Cool star wars theme office 4. Rick Smith and Jawad Ahsan 5. I wish there was a #5 to add here ...

Cons

Countless but here are the main ones - 1. Trying to be Amazon with Axon's vision, Taser leadership and mission. Ain't happening. Good luck! 2. No work-life balance.. NONE. Extremely under resourced with high churn but the work doesn't slow down. You get excited about the mission, you work passionately, put upwards of 50 hrs a week and yet the product doesn't launch and the real reason for launch failure is manipulated. The manipulators keep growing and the worker bees get yelled at in ridiculous number of review meetings. 3. Disrespectful treatment, use of foul language, demeaning tone and body language in meetings. 4. Expectations to get rolling without any training or real onboarding. 5. No alignment between R&D, sales and finance. Sales keeps winning with the power of OSP bundles and upper hand on hardware solutions. 6. ZBB is a joke. 7. Confusing structure in R&D - product managers are also project managers and sometimes engineering managers too. Engineering muscle is very weak and good talent is hard to retain.

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Axon Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback and thoughts. While we’re glad elements of your time with us were positive, we’re disappointed to hear you felt let down. Our mission to Protect Life comes first and, like you, we feel a connection to the meaningful work we do. We’re solving some of society’s biggest problems, which attracts passionate people who care deeply about what they do. We recognize that in pursuit of these goals there are things we can do better, including improved facilitation of work life balance and further development of onboarding across the business. Our leadership has identified these two areas and is working hard to solve them—hiring more headcount, supporting employees to take time to unplug, reassessing our benefits and building out more robust onboarding plans. In addition, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can feel safe and welcome, and we will be investigating these claims. We’d appreciate if you would reach out to our People Operations team (peopleops@axon.com) to share more detail. Thank you again for your candor.
1.0
Nov 18, 2020

Beware! Great products but terrible leadership

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Saving lives. Flexible schedules. Some of the ICs were amazing people. Great stock bonuses.

Cons

Leadership has no idea what they are doing, it’s very unorganized. You won’t get promoted unless you’re in the boys club. As some other reviews have said, terminations without warning are very common. I’ve seen great people get blindsided while LDPs skate by because they went to Harvard. There is also no diversity or inclusion even though the PR team likes to say there is. You must always be available, even while on PTO. There isn’t any work life balance.

2.0
Aug 17, 2020

Good benefits with a catch

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Work with cool customers - Great benefits (unlimited PTO, salary, stock) - Lots of solid people employed

Cons

- Becoming a toxic culture negatively influenced by current events, excluding groups of people disguised as "affinity groups" based on race and gender - Becoming a social "justice" and political company (not a tech company) - Very cocky and presumptive of ongoing business, which I suspect "pride comes before the fall" in the next couple years

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