Axon interview questions

I did a phone screening interview with Taser International. The interviewer asked me some behavioral questions such as tell me a little bit a bout yourself, etc. and one technical question in that I have to write java code to check if a permutation of a string can be a palindrome. The interview was approximately an hour.

Technical phone screen using collabedit and in-person interview loop of whiteboard coding exercises for Evidence.com. Sadly, the Axon office in Seattle is predominantly an ex-microsoftee "bro" camp of lemmings still unintelligently misusing the out-dated and largely irrelevant (beyond recent college grads) CS Jeopardy! trivia contest "process". Literally no comprehension of a candidate's directly applicable, proven, real-life experience. Discard / tase your resume before entering this office. They are looking for recent college grads / people that worked at GAM companies and like to re-invent a new wheel each month - depending on which direction the constantly changing wind blows from management. Everyone here described "constant change" as the key characteristic of the office... Disorganized office - in retrospect, this is clearly visible in the job descriptions - they have no idea what they are doing (nor really what they are going to do) in this office. Low quality system design - constantly breaking down. Several interviewers seem to have no knowledge of OO basics - they do want people that enjoy hacking things together as quickly as possible. Basically, this is a prototyping shop since they prefer to use as many different technologies over time as possible. You may hear some questionable or obtuse comments from interviewers like "ActiveMQ can only process 6 messages/sec because of the complexity of the AMQP protocol" or "It's really difficult to pass function pointers in Java." One of the "senior" interviewers seems intentionally difficult to communicate with. I.e., likes to say "yup, yup, got you" but clearly doesn't understand basic explanations of things until several repetitions have been made. Cyclical Taser & Axon business is driven by violent events, major patent infringement lawsuit against Taser in progress, and now alleged bribes, jobs, & trips given to public officials to land contracts - news of this last year as well it appears. Search on "Taser bribes". Where there's smoke...