If You're Not Part of the Club- You're Out! - Anonymous employee Axon Employee Review

OH, let me list the ways that this is the worst company to ever work for... 1. This is a public safety company that hires everyone from Microsoft. A full-time employee with public safety experience is a unicorn. 2. If you are part of the boys' club, you're golden. You can promise a product to a customer and not be able to deliver but because you're part of the club you get to keep your job. Guess what?! You even get promoted!!! Why? You blame the failure on everyone else (particularly engineers and product managers), lay people off, and then hire younger replacements. 4. If you rub someone the wrong way who is part of the boys’ club, I promise you that you will be either laid off or terminated without cause. Like other reviews, an email would go out nearly daily of someone who was no longer with the company. Even worse, you could go to message someone in Slack and the message would be rejected because they mysteriously disappeared. 5. One of the company mottos is to "own it." Meaning, if you make a mistake, own it, and then make it right. This is far from true. If someone made an error (or was blamed for an error), they would be laid off. For example, the company "cleaned house" after not being able to deliver on a product on the manufacturing side. 6. If you are part of the boys’ club, then you will have a job for life. For example, someone with a degree in a foreign language can be a product director because they sucked up to the CEO during their internship. As other reviews have pointed out, the president of the company shot through the ranks despite never having worked at any other software company because he became the CEO’s buddy. 7. If you’re an older, experienced professional, I promise you that you will be laid off. The company would rather hire young, inexperienced people who do not have a brain, backbone, or independent opinion than retain someone who is older. Literally all the workers of a division that were “laid off” were the oldest in the division. Only the youngest 3 employees were retained. 8. HR? That’s a farce! The VP cannot even be bothered to answer emails let alone sign her full name and instead just signs her first initial. This does not set the tone of a company that cares about its employees. 9. The company gives signing bonuses in RSUs because they know the majority of them will not payout. You must be there a year to obtain a portion of the signing bonus, which hardly anyone makes it past the year mark. 10. Ethics Board? Win right? Another farce. How can all the oldest workers in a division be laid off and it not be noticed by the “Ethics Board?” How can people be laid off in a company and then their jobs be posted a week later, and it not be noticed by the “Ethics Board?” How can a company “win right” if they lay off people for whatever fake reason that is created that week instead of moving them to a different position in the company?!