Axon Sr. Software Engineer reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(22 total reviews)
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Rick Smith

99% approve of CEO

99% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Axon with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 22 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Axon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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22 reviews
4.0
Mar 26, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great product and mission. Strong leadership and a lot of growth opportunities.

Cons

WLB is not good, too much time spent on implementing new processes vs implementing or solving problems.

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Axon Response
1y
Thank you for sharing your feedback and for taking the time to leave a review. We're happy to hear that you found our mission, leadership team, and the opportunities for growth to be strong points. We appreciate your note around work-life balance and process. As Axon continues to scale, we recognize that there’s always room to fine-tune how we operate to best support our teams. We remain committed to fostering an environment where innovation, performance, and balance can thrive together. Thanks again for your contributions. We wish you continued success in your future endeavors.
3.0
May 15, 2024

There is a balance

Recommend
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Pros

At Axon, you have an opportunity to work along side many people who are very talented and passionate about their work. Working to improve public safety and give our police officers viable non-life-threatening options, and state-of-the-art equipment is definitely rewarding. We also get into cutting-edge stuff like drones as first responders (DFR) and experiments into AI to accelerate evidence reviews, so if you're on those teams, it can be quite exciting stuff to work on!

Cons

Strong DEI (actually, they do the whole JEDI thing with "J" for "Justice" too, which fits nicely into corporate's sci-fi themes) influence throughout the company. This may be a plus for some, but for me, it's a practice that has no place anywhere. It promotes exactly the opposite of what it espouses and negatively affects the working environment. Due to the nature of our work, our local systems are highly-regulated/safeguarded by IT. This also may not bother some depending on what you're already used to, but coming from looser environments, it can be real drag. Just be ready for it. At least we still have local admin privileges on dev systems. Laptops given to new employees in dev by IT are inadequate. At least for a UI engineer, an M2 with 16GB is just not enough for all the tools we run on a regular basis, which tend to be visual tools due to the nature of our work, and so they need memory. New systems should have 32GB memory minimum. A cheaper M1 with 32GB would be far better than a newer M2 with 16GB.

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Axon Response
2y
Thank you for taking the time to leave this review and for your dedication to our mission. We appreciate your comments and candor.
5.0
Feb 28, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great compensation for UK, an excellent place for self-starters, who love taking responsibility. Work asynchronous, spread across multiple timezones

Cons

Not a work-from-anywhere company, although its career page states that. have been rejected many times

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