Pros
- Everyone I met was passionate about saving lives and building great products, in words and actions. Really inspiring. - Supportive and collaborative culture. The Company Kick-off (CKO) event brought everyone together, and showcased this part of working at Axon really well - Competitive salaries, only bested by BigTech and Finance - Unlimited* PTO (but see cons)
Cons
- 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