Profit-Taker pylon skip: Skipping the complete pylon phases by letting the pylons despawn.

[Iterniam]

If everyone in the squad is more than 500 meters away from the pylons while they are still in the air, they despawn, allowing you to progress to the next phase.
This is demonstrated here. Doing so will bug out the mission meaing you won't get the bounty rewards.

Possibly related is another bug, where you don't get the bounty rewards despite progressing through the fight in a normal manner. In my 1600+ Profit-Taker runs, I have seen this bug once, here. The cause of this remains unknown.

 

This is part of a series of bug reports related to the Profit-Taker fight. You can find the other bugs here:

• Profit-Taker leg regen
• Profit-Taker shield regen
• Profit-Taker pylon skip
• Profit-Taker affected by shield ospreys
• AoE weapons only deal their AoE damage portion when it hits the technical head of Profit-Taker.
• Inability to fire the zenith after cancelling the disc animation
• Arch-Gun deployment is currently unaffected by holster speed

[Iterniam]

The bounty not showing up may be related to pylons falling on top of each other, as demonstrated here at 1m22s:

 

[Iterniam]

Fixed as per hotfix 30.3.5

51 minutes ago, [DE]Megan said:

• Fixed an exploit that would let you bypass most of the Profit Taker Heist.

Regardless of the player's location, pylons now land as normal and the state of the fight no longer bugs out.