Photon·Software Engineer

Photon Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Minneapolis, MNPosted Mar 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was pulled in through an employee referral and scheduled a phone interview at a time that suited me.

The call started with awkward communication—his accent made it harder to follow, and it didn’t feel like he was genuinely introducing himself or the team. That set the tone for me.

When the actual questions started, they weren’t what I expected from a first-round screen. Instead of core CS fundamentals, coding, or problem-solving, I got academic, lookup-friendly topics where the “answers” were the kind you could find in textbooks. I remember questions like configuring HTTP on Apache Tomcat, listing SOAP protocols and how to write a basic SOAP HTTP request, and what Spring Framework

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