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      Axon

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      Axon reviews

      3.6

      62% would recommend to a friend

      (759 total reviews)
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      Rick Smith

      78% approve of CEO

      66% positive business outlook

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      Axon has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 759 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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      759 reviews
      3.0
      Apr 20, 2023

      So much potential to truly be amazing....

      Sales executive
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      Pros

      The mission is undeniably amazing. Advocating for and supporting public safety professionals around the world is something that inspired me to join Axon. There are some phenomenal people within the organization.

      Cons

      On boarding was an absolute nightmare, inconsistent, unorganized, extremely subjective! Much like the customers served, there is still very much so a "good Ole boys" club stigma that shows up throughout the organization. So much division between who went to what ivy league school, former cops vs techies, inside vs outside sales, Arizona employees vs everyone else, Taser vs software and sensors, etc... If you don't get in with the "right" crowd, you may feel like an outcast. Lot's of hiring into management from outside vs inside. This created a massive gap between what individual contributors that were in the trenches we're seeing and what management was basing expectations off of. CRM full of data that doesn't match what's accurate in the market in terms of opportunity. There's a number of reps that seem to know where the bodies are buried and avoid the pressure that is put on others to perform.

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      Axon Response
      3y
      Thank you for sharing your candid feedback, which is not indicative of the experience we strive to provide to our employees. We are actively working on our trainings and on-boarding and appreciate the insights so we can continue to improve.
      1.0
      Feb 5, 2021

      Extremely Disappointed

      Manufacturing supervisor
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      Pros

      There are some good people

      Cons

      Lack of experience in Operations management is holding this company back from being great. No knowledge of financials, operations, positive engagement and overall leadership. Low bar leadership. They understand targets, that's it. Waste of time for anyone already with business experience, you'll be highly disappointed.

      2.0
      Oct 2, 2020

      Noble vision, but not a tech company and very mediocre leadership.

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      The company is built on a strong vision to help law enforcement and the community by providing non-lethal weapons and cameras to capture the truth in the moment. You will see most people carry this vision in their daily worklife. I worked with a talented engineering team, with a level-headed culture. Learnt a lot in my 3.5 years working here. Since it's a smaller company with a 30-40 person engineering team, there is lots of opportunity for taking on more responsibility and really owning an entire product from design to production ramp. It had a few nice perks when I joined, including an awesome river rafting trip to grand canyon but all of that went away as the company matured and now they run it on a tighter budget and the only perk left is free coffee/snacks.

      Cons

      Not at all a tech-oriented company. While I can praise the engineering team, by itself, the rest of company just thinks of the products as commodity that magically appears. Infact, the rest of company actually thinks the 2-3 product evangelists actually built the product. The sales team and the idiot product managers are treated like superstars. Almost no promotions exist on the engineering side, while rapid career progression ensues in sales and marketing. Leadership is oblivious on how to run and maintain an r&d team and I saw 4 VPs of r&d in 3 years come and go. Exective team will only accept a 'yes-man' culture. There is no place for debate or constructive feedback. It's either their way or you are walking out the door. Quite a bit of churn in employees.. the company fires 10% of the work force every year and then hires rapidly again. (instead of trying to retain and help grow some talent in-house). Overall I really don't like the leadership and the yes-man product managers. If you want a turly engineering centered tech company.. this is not it!

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