Chewed up and spat out - SRE Engineer Axon Employee Review

2.0
Feb 7, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Axon's products impact the administration of criminal justice at thousands of agencies worldwide. It's a mission you can be proud of, and the engineering challenges are boundless. The company's financial performance is stellar; if you can manage to get any stock-based or performance-based compensation you'll do well.

Cons

The culture at Axon is quite toxic. It is very competitive, very political, and there is little collaboration between teams. Management doesn't have any interest in building an engineering culture; the focus is entirely on generating revenue in the short-term. Axon treats its engineers as cost centers, and its been offshoring more and more of its engineering over the past few years. Every engineer is expected to fight for their own right to exist; the company doesn't offer any training, some positions don't even offer an advancement rubric. The work in SRE is constant firefighting and manual toil. The company leans heavily on "hero culture" to keep services running. There is no effort put towards addressing technical debt or improving engineering processes. Working 50-60 hour weeks is expected from senior engineers. If you have a family, if you're in your 40s or older, if you want any work-life balance, expect to be managed out of the company in short order.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 2, 2026
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Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay and benefits Flexible PTO RSU's

Cons

Company morale is low. The other recent reviews stating this are extremely accurate. Company culture has eroded and the company values don't seem to matter anymore. 'Winning Right' has become lip service. Senior leadership refuses to address the problems many departments are having with headcount and workload. They don't really care about the customer experience. RTO makes no sense when most of your team remains remote in the same role, a role in which you spend much of the time on calls with customers and meeting with other team members virtually. Not enough staff to support the RMS customer base and ticket counts have ballooned.

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