Axon Sr. Software Engineer reviews

Axon is *far* more concerned with process than productivity. As an engineer, you'll find yourself swamped with busywork, while your actual engineering skills will atrophy. There is no aspect of work that they cannot turn into a paperwork process for the purpose of charting and tracking.

- 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