Pros
- Axon has a great CEO who has incredible ideas about public safety - The PTO policy is very convenient - made great connections with my colleagues
Cons
- In 2+ years in my team, I haven't seen a single colleague receive a promotion or raise above 3-4% (team of 6 analysts - and yes, we openly talk about our salaries). - Recently Axon "re-branded" our job titles, while the real reason was not disclosed, we later found out it was a move to basically offer a lower pay to new hires for that same role. - While this may not be applicable on all teams, my direct manager micromanaged a LOT. We were constantly asked to provide updates, have excessive meetings, document everything we did, and fill out several useless forms before we could actually do the work needed for our projects. - don't expect to get anything beyond a 3-4% raise. Axon, understandably so, places employees on a bell curve to determine performance -- everyone I ever spoke in my team has always been rated in the same performance category, receiving the same % increase every year. Meanwhile, every C-Suite exec has tens of millions in stock grants, definitely the largest employee to exec gap I've seen from all the places I worked for. - Get ready to work on weekends/afterhours. I've gotten texts from my manager on Saturdays at 10pm.