Axon reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(761 total reviews)
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Rick Smith

78% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Axon has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 761 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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761 reviews
5.0
Aug 20, 2021

Great place to work!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great work life balance and a supportive team to grow in. Everyone is really friendly and works hard.

Cons

There hasn't been that many downsides to working at Axon. It has been a nice job to transition into even during covid.

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Axon Response
4y
Thank you for sharing! We are proud of our team and how hard they work toward our mission, solving some of the biggest problems facing our communities today. We’re glad you’re here!
1.0
Aug 20, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
4y
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.
3.0
Aug 19, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Great and diverse projects. Lots of things to work on that keeps you busy. Not the same activities day to day. People are very nice.

Cons

Management is a cluster and headache. There are no procedures and it’s pretty much a free for all for anything. Sometimes people are two faced, they can be nice to you but hold you back. The HR department isn’t much help. The supervisors and some engineers flirt and harass the female operators.

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Axon Response
4y
Thank you for sharing. We take matters like this very seriously and our team will be investigating. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone can feel safe and welcome, and have zero tolerance for harassment. If you’re comfortable, we’d appreciate if you would reach out to our People Operations team (peopleops@axon.com) to share more detail.
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