Photon·Software Engineer

Photon Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Santa Clara, CAPosted Aug 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a rough, drawn-out experience that started with a sudden schedule change.

They reached out just a couple of days before the originally planned interview, and once I requested a shift, I still ended up with only a few days to prepare. When the call finally started, the interviewer joined late, and it felt like the technical interview was handled by someone in talent acquisition who didn’t have the technical grounding needed for the role. On top of that, the person struggled with LeetCode access and even had to bring someone else in mid-interview when things stalled, then dropped off.

The coding round itself was basically two LeetCode problems where I was given

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