Product Designer - User Experience Designer Axial Employee Review

5.0
Oct 29, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Extremely smart, talented and driven people throughout the company (especially on the Product and engineering fronts). -Excellent management and leadership throughout the organization. -Work-life balance is great. -Best health insurance I've ever had. Really positive, unpretentious, and helpful environment conducive to growth and mobility. -In the little over a year that I spent at Axial, the product and engineering departments underwent massive, strategic personnel changes from top to bottom. While those changes were challenging, I do believe that they have put Axial in a position to succeed and take the product to the next level. My reasons for leaving we're strictly opportunistic regarding my career goals, otherwise I would still be there. Working for Giff Constable (even for a brief time) was an absolute pleasure and great learning experience. If you're a product designer looking to work on a challenging product with some really smart people and under the guidance of an excellent department lead, then you should definitely consider Axial.

Cons

Meeting volume. Granted, that drastically improved by the time I left. As much as I do appreciate the company's values when it comes to taking care of it's employees, the town halls and other events can certainly be a little too much in terms of peppiness. That's something totally subjective and should be taken with a grain of salt. *Neither of those aforementioned items should preclude anyone from looking into Axial. The pros heavily outweigh the cons.

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Axial Response
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Thank you taking the time to provide some well detailed feedback, we really appreciate it. Your feedback on the quantity of meetings is definitely something we are working on, so glad you were seeing some improvement there before you left. As for the town halls and other events, we definitely try to keep them engaging / peppy, but totally understand that it may not resonate with everyone. As for the advice, you are spot on there and I will pass this along as additional support for our laser focus on delivering the roadmap and trying to stay out of the way as much as we can. All the best!

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