Nice people but don't bother. - Senior Software Engineer Axway Employee Review

1.0
23 Oct 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are some very smart and innovative people in the company, a lot were in startups that got bought over. This is the main thing axway is in the news for. Weekend work not really a thing here. Management often eventually realize the smart thing after been told.

Cons

The company is always focused on trying to buy another company, it is the the only strategy the executives at higher level in the company know how to do. They don't even know how to manage the company and products they take over. Most of the products that end in the company get removed after a few years despite them being profitable. All financial figures only ever show case modest growth even competitors in the same market showed huge growth. According to some older employees the company has never had a successful product developed in house, all the development happened in the startups they took over. And if you have seen the constantly changing priorities and strategy you know why. A lot of executives were ex IBM and have had a huge impact on the executive culture, the CEO keeps telling a story about the corporate jet from his days in IBM. No one knows what is happening in this company, a regular occurrence is that a bunch of middle manager meet and decide something but none of them do anything about it. They don't even know what to do about anything. They spend a lot of time and money with external consultants. Axway was spun off from Sopra a French consultancy and outsourcing company and a lot of processes and structure remain.

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5.0
21 Oct 2025
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Pros

Work life balance Benefits New technology

Cons

The workload between members of the same team was not balanced.

1.0
8 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Remote, this is an extreme pro because it will keep you from catching an assault case when some Axway career loser talks crazy to you on email or Teams and all you want to do is punch the guy in the mouth. So many long term employees there couldn't work anywhere else b/c they aren't even half-way competent at their jobs - performance over substance, mediocrity over competence and being male are what is rewarded there.

Cons

How long have you got? Below market pay. Co-workers and leadership that range from incompetent to passive aggressive to outright hostile. Some of the worst contract T&Cs I've seen in my career - it took me a while to realize the reason I never had legal redline review calls with customers - the T&Cs were completely in their favor. There wasn't much for them to redline. Cross functional teams will do nothing but dump work on you or pontificate on calls about anything other than what you've asked them to actually do. The "great work life balance" is for everyone else but the sales team. Others have a great balance b/c they don't actually have to do much work. Guess who gets to pick up the slack b/c you have to get deals over the line? But don't worry, you'll get a link to a Jive post or a PPT prez explaining how you can do their job for them. I'm not kidding. Truly a nightmare of a company.

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