"Like a Fast Food-Cheap & Enticing but Afterwards your left w/ Indigestion and Empty"
Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Scottsdale, AZ
Doesn't Recommend
Negative Outlook
Disapproves of CEO
I have been working at Axon full-time for more than a year
Pros
Parental Leave PTO policy Some cool people
Cons
Before I started working at Axon, I told one of my friends where I was going to work. Her response was a freakishly a foreshadowing "that's a scummy company, are you sure you want to work for them?". Little did I know....Here's some candid facts about Axon: -Culture of Fear & Paranoia: It all starts with the culture of fear and paranoia. Without a drastic change in culture, this place will always be the same.
Ongoing jokes about who is going to be fired next. Is it really worth coming to a place to work wondering if you will be next? This actually causes anxiety in employees. But HR and management are to blame. They created this culture of fear and paranoia, and they feed it. -Toxic environment Just watch K–ling them Safely. They nailed how toxic this place is. Why do you think they 'changed' their name to Axon? They may have changed the name, but they can't change the reputation nor the culture. It is still the same toxic place it always was.Can't trust anyone. Constant back stabbing, constant firings, never know who said what to who to give them a bad rap. Bullying: rampant, almost encouraged -Mid Management: Extremely unprofessional and unqualified for positions. I've seen numerous people be let go due to mid managers not able to manage and unqualified to make decisions -Diversity? HA! Good luck finding at least a woman in a higher position. Everyone looks the same, thinks the same, acts the same. LGBT? Don't even think about it.
Total bro-culture here. - Employee Value Employees are not valued. Unless you are an LDP and went to Harvard or Stanford. Only exceptions. Other than that, you could have a Phd in your profession but someone with a bachelor in psychology will be running your department with absolutely no work experience. They don't value education. -Seattle Office Seriously guys, with so many awesome options in Seattle, don't waste your time with Axon. First, the office there is extremely boring and dull. Don't fall for Axon's recruiting gimmicks to fill the gap of engineers. If you are an engineer, there are so many options in Seattle for you to waste your time here. Plus, everyone at HQ hates the people in the Seattle office. Most are pompous, pretentious and treat HQ people like c-ap. -
ENGINEERS You have so many options out there! Go to a reputable, respectable company. This is a horrible work environment for engineers! Products constantly breaking, pressure to fix without proper tools and backstabbing environment. Recruiters make it seem like its a dream job and company.
Trust me: it is NOT -Sales Non-STOP firings! This is the most volatile department. If you even make it past 1 year, the sales cycle is so slow that it can take you well over a year to even start seeing any commission. You build pipeline, you build relationships months and months and nothing, or you get fired before you can claim your commission. You can't even count how many sales people get fired. Not worth the stress, the time wasted, nor the pay. - Career Opportunities If you are buddy buddy with an upper manager, maybe. If you actually have qualifications and can prove it, forget it. That's not how it works here. -Finance This is the most fiscally irresponsible company out there. Horrible management of its finances.
Last year, board members got on upper managements case about this. So what did they do? Lay off a ton of people over a two day period. In all areas, all departments. Oh but you sure as hell didn't see any of the execs give up part of their 700k + salaries. And they don't care who they get rid of. You could be there 6 months or 16 years. -Legal: Scummy legal team that fights tooth and nail every time the company gets rightfully sued. These are the people that would defend an intruder who sues a home owner for cutting himself on the glass he smashed to break in...that kind of scummy Sad to see a local company being managed so corruptly. It is a shame for Arizona that such a corrupt organization has its HQ here.
Advice to Management
Do what you do best: get rid of every mid level manager and start fresh. While you are at it, get rid of yourselves as well. If this company is going to survive it needs to be under "new management". Oh and HR, don't bother giving your pre-written response about how to feel free to contact you and give my opinion and reach out to someone with their "open door" policy. You are the last department I would ever trust. We all know going to HR is to be put on the chopping block list.