Axon·Software Engineer·Onsite - System Design / Architecture
May 2026
Axon Research Engineer interview, second session, focused entirely on a system design problem for law enforcement video intelligence. No behavioral questions, no warmup, just straight into a gnarly open-ended design problem that took the full session.
- Design a video intelligence system for law enforcement that ingests footage from body cameras, CCTV, dashcams, interview rooms, drones, and uploaded evidence clips. The system should let investigators search across massive archives, reason over footage, and surface evidence-relevant moments rather than just summarizing video.
“This one is bigger than it looks.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Axon, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.
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