Axios reviews

3.3

43% would recommend to a friend

(237 total reviews)
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Jim VandeHei

53% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Axios has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 237 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Axios employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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237 reviews
1.0
Jan 19, 2025

Company on the decline

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Pros

At this point, not much to say here. Still plenty of support/emphasis on DEI, and work/life balance is decent relative to other tech companies. Be wary of the recent positive, but short reviews here.

Cons

Like other media companies, the business has suffered over the last 1-2 years and the outlook is not improving; the company has had to react by cutting benefits and positions. Within the product/tech org, my experience found some teams better off, while others suffered long-term turnover issues stemming from poor leadership and nepotism; I found workplace politics rife and more important than actual contributions. Leaders allowed favoritism to obscure their judgement, overlooking rampant personnel performance issues and producing a toxic culture. My personal experience aside, given the outlook of the company and the news media industry in general, it's not worth pursuing a tech-related career here. Layoffs / role reductions, and people migrating to better jobs over the last year (across the company) also portends the silent killer of companies: brain drain. Your best employees leave for better opportunities, and eventually you're left with your worst performers, smaller teams doing more work, and new folks struggling to assemble enough context to course-correct a deteriorating culture/tech stack. Do you really want to step into that for the mediocre salary they've offered you? (Those layoffs in 2024 eliminated some of the higher-paid individuals, only for the same roles to be re-listed and backfilled with lower salaries)

1.0
Apr 29, 2022

Stay away.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

None that I can speak of.

Cons

Sub-par management, below market salaries, disparate treatment amongst teams, no mobility to explore new opportunities, bleach white leadership team.

1.0
Sep 18, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great teammates and a good name to have on a resume

Cons

The culture was fantastic in the early days and it truly felt like a great place to work. Unfortunately, it has gone downhill and is now failing terribly. Leadership acts impulsively and always chasing the next shiny idea without a real plan, all the while abandoning projects that are still in progress and then blaming the failures on employees. Entire teams have been laid off with as little as two days’ notice. They’ll claim they’ll “do their best” to relocate people internally but when you reach out to recruiters, you’re ignored and treated as if you don’t matter. It’s a toxic environment through and through. Layoffs have become routine and unpredictable. Three major ones happened during my two years there, each without warning. Managers change frequently, and with that, any promises of promotions disappear. Even when you exceed your quarterly goals, you’ll only receive a “meets expectations” rating because leadership doesn’t want to promote anyone. The disconnect between what is promised and what actually happens has left morale very low at all times unfortunately. After the layoffs, remaining associates and senior associates were burdened with additional work, yet no promotions or raises were given. Leadership reposted other roles with expanded responsibilities but at lower salaries. Management has become toxic and heavily micro-managing doing whatever they can to undermine confidence and make employees second-guess themselves.

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