Photon Software Engineer interview experience

The later client round was mentioned as the next step. The technical content skewed toward backend work, and my conversations included Spring/Spring Boot with two coding questions.

What stood out most was how chaotic the experience felt. In the earlier rounds, it was clear some interviewers weren’t adjusting to my answers—one person followed a fixed list and seemed focused on getting through questions rather than actually evaluating correctness or depth. I even had moments where the session tone felt like the interviewer was just marking attendance, and one round was over far faster than it