Explain your career path and leadership impact

Context: This is a hiring-manager behavioral screen for an Engineering Manager / Tech Lead–type role. Answer the following prompts clearly and concretely (use specific examples, scope, and measurable impact).

1. Why do you want to work at Axon (mission/product/company fit)?
2. Walk through your career path: what has motivated your choices so far, and what is your 5-year plan?
3. How does your work help customers/users? What feedback loops and metrics do you use to measure effectiveness?
4. Describe your organization/team structure. What are your responsibilities and the scope of your cross-team collaboration?
5. How many people do you manage directly and indirectly (team size / reporting lines)?
6. What is your current time split between hands-on coding and leadership/management work?
7. AI-driven development: what have you implemented or adopted, what challenges did you hit, and how do you ensure quality (testing/reviews/guardrails)?
8. AI can increase short-term productivity; what are the long-term effects on maintainability and operations/on-call? How do you mitigate risks?
9. What is the largest positive customer impact you delivered in a past project? Quantify it.
10. What is your biggest technical mistake/failure? What did you learn and change afterward?
11. Describe a cross-team initiative you led to improve engineering excellence (quality, reliability, velocity, standards). What resistance did you face and how did you resolve it?
12. Tell me about your mentoring experience.
13. Give an example of when you improved your team’s processes (planning, incident response, code review, testing, release, etc.). What changed and what results did you see?