Photon·Software Engineer

Photon Software Engineer interview experience

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ChennaiPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview experiences with Photon didn’t feel like they followed the same quality bar end to end.

In one shorter setup, the process was quick—about thirty minutes total—and it was centered on a simple domain discussion plus a coding round. I remember it feeling fairly straightforward, and I even received feedback after the call wrapped.

On a different day, the process started late and oddly unprofessional. The interviewer was delayed by about thirty minutes, and during my explanation of my project the person dropped the headset and started talking to someone else behind them without warning. I answered the architecture and microservices questions I was asked, but the interaction felt

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