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Q&A With Axon Employees
Whether protecting life through each line of code you write or through the devices you've led to launch, you'll be making a difference. Our team is inclusive, humble, and determined, no matter the project or activity. Whatever your goals are, you'll have the freedom to work on projects you care about, and the support of people who will challenge you in new ways.
How employees describe working at Axon
Axon diversifies compensation for most full-time employees across base, stock, and annual bonus. It's motivating having equity in the company and allows flexibility in overall compensation negotiations.
How willing everyone is to help out.
Very challenging and fast-pace, learned a lot of new thing everyday
GYM package, Senior Manager bonus in 4 years
good company, a lots of benefit but still have many rooms for improvement, especially the process, policies
What it's like to work at Axon
- Les employés de Axon travaillent généralement 9.0 heures par jour
- Les employés de chez Axon signalent que le rythme de travail est confortablement rapide
- 100% des employés de chez Axon sont impatients d’interagir avec leur équipe tous les jours
- Les employés de Axon prennent le plus souvent illimité congés payés et de congés de maladie chaque année
- 79% des employés chez Axon déclarent qu’ils sont satisfaits de leur équilibre travail-vie personnelle
- Les employés de Axon reçoivent généralement des commentaires précieux sur la façon de s’améliorer au travail chaque semaine
- 96% of Axon employees call their work environment positif
Q&A With Axon Employees
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How does Axon handle HR issues?
They have a legal team for the employees
Through conversations and fast decisions.
Fairly
How are layoffs handled in the Engineering department at Axon?
Meilleure réponse des employés
All lies. Just under 20 laid off this week and prior round of layoffs happened last year. This place is a revolving door.
Lay-off same day without notice.
We have never done any layoffs in the software engineering department. We do manage performance and have managed people out for performance.
What's the work from home policy like at Axon?
Allowed
At least in software engineering, employees are welcome to work from home. A few people even work completely remotely, although that's the exception.
As long as you let your team know and they are okay with it, work from home as much as you want!
How's the morale at Axon?
People are working hard to achieve our mission so in general the morale is high.
Awesome. We are all happy to be executing a valuable social mission. There are a lot of resources being dedicated to engineering and product development in general. A good place to be.
Strong, mission driven
How innovative is Axon?
Never seen that word at work
Super-innovative
In our industry, extremely innovative.
Why work for Axon?
Mission and people
The mission (make a societal impact!), the culture (super open, geeky, and friendly), and the people (smart, dedicated people from all over the industry)! :)
You should work for Axon if you believe in the mission. Axon's mission is very socially relevant and impactful. You can feel good about what you do on a daily basis. Axon makes technology to improve law enforcement use of force (Tasers: make it non-lethal where possible), law enforcement transparency (body cameras), and law enforcement efficiency (software). Axon's eventual goal is to expand this impact into all aspects of criminal justice.
Does Axon drug test or do a background check?
Meilleure réponse des employés
Yes to background check.
Background check yes. Drug test no.
drug test = no Background Check = yes
How helpful was your Engineering team when you were first hired at Axon?
You are on your own
Very helpful. Answered many questions for me.
What's the internship program like at Axon?
Very strong internship program that allows interns to work on tangible projects from beginning to end.
Great
What makes you the most proud about working at Axon?
The mission
What is the best advice you could give someone during their first month at Axon?
Talk to as many people from as many teams as possible. There is a lot of documentation, but sometimes it's buried. Build connections to build understanding and orient yourself. Also, go on a ride-along with local law enforcement! That will be hugely helpful in understanding our customers.
What are you most excited about working at Axon?
The iris scan door
How's the work life balance at Axon?
All work no life
How does Axon make decisions around promotions?
Not based on your work or contribution
How's the vacation policy at Axon?
Unlimited until you use it
How difficult is it to maintain a social life while in your job at Axon?
Meilleure réponse des employés
Nerds have no social life
How secure do you feel at your job at Axon?
Could be fired at anytime
How's the work pace at Axon?
Slow and inefficient
How do you feel about Axon's future?
None of my business
How much diversity is there among employees at Axon?
White male 80-90% if not more
What's one thing you wish you'd known before joining Axon?
Should not have believed the sales pitch
Who did you meet with during your interview? And how long did it take to hear back from Axon?
4 rounds for onsite
What kind of interview questions do they ask when hiring someone in the Engineering department at Axon?
Algorithms and data structure
What Engineering department questions did Axon ask during your job interview?
Same old. They can’t even write good test cases
What programming languages does Axon use?
Meilleure réponse des employés
Scala, Java, Go, Swift,
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Should I work at Axon?
70% of Axon employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 24% are neutral and 6% would not recommend working at Axon to their friends.
| 70% | Promoters |
|---|---|
| 24% | Passive |
| 6% | Detractors |
