Great Overall Mission, Start-Up Oriented, but with a Hire/Fire Mentality - Anonymous employee Axon Employee Review

Axon has been in business since 1993 and while they have a 25+ year history, they operate just as a start-up would, often disjointed, tunnel-visioned and not open to hearing ideas from employees with previous history in the very products being created. Axon is very top-heavy with more Directors, Senior Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents, Senior Managers, and Managers than any company I have ever seen. It seems like there are 4 managers to every employee and layers to cut through to get a decision made. It is not uncommon for management to come up with a new idea and suddenly want to reorganize the company. While the company touts " we want to retain talent" and "we treat our employees well", management is quite quick to show an employee the door should something go awry, especially when an employee has done what they were told to do. Management is very quick to point fingers and blame employees for their misguidedness and People Operations, as Human Resources is called, doesn't stand behind the people, but rather the management. As other reviews have stated, it is not uncommon to see emails and messages on a weekly, if not daily basis, that "so-and-so is no longer with Axon." From the top down, while I really liked the CEO and President, they do have their favorites and Axon does work like the old boy's club. Certain people are untouchable no matter how much damage they do to a team or group. They are just simply moved to another management role. Several of these people have been moved 4-5-6 times, yet someone who is not part of the boys club is shown the door.