Photon Software Engineer interview experience

In the first technical session, the interviewer mostly read questions off their screen and seemed to be moving through topics rather than engaging—starting with React-related ideas like lazy loading and complex components, then shifting into AWS architecture, system design, microservices, Node.js, and MongoDB. I realized I was wondering whether I’d accidentally landed in a frontend React interview, because the flow didn’t match cleanly, and when I asked for concrete example scenarios, the interviewer didn’t respond the way I expected and came across as rude rather than helpful.

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