Axon reviews

- Demanding workload and long hours. They do have a couple extra weeks a year where the company is shut, but getting through the year still feels exhausting. This seemed like the expectation company-wide (eg. everyone on my team did it, the CKO schedule started at 7am and went until late at night), so drawing boundaries seemed impossible to me. - People often take very little holiday, or even dial into meetings during holidays. The unlimited PTO is effectively misleading. - If you prorate the salary to factor in the (unpaid) overtime, there’s probably more competitive options out there. - Aggressive timelines, often driven by insufficient scoping and too-ambitious mindsets. It was unclear to me if this was ego-driven, or (saving lives) passion-driven - Lack of infrastructure support, every team I saw had to reinvent devops/k8s/observabllity which leads to duplicated effort and inconsistency in operations

- Awful cross team collaboration. Given everyone is fighting for time, it can be very difficult when you need something from another team. - Often work 60+ hr weeks, with no end in sight. Even on days off, it’s hard to truly relax when you are always “behind” - In addition to demanding timelines, leadership is constantly introducing more red tape to get your work done - As an engineer, I’ll often spend far more time in meetings than writing code or designing features - You will inevitably miss deadlines due to lack of time, and leadership’s solution is to introduce more red tape and meetings to “correct” the behavior, when the underlying problem is actually too many meetings and red tape