I applied online. I interviewed at Photon (Plano, TX) in Oct 2025
Interview
I’ve completed two initial technical rounds with Photon for a Senior Developer role, including a HackerRank coding session focused on problem-solving, backend development skills, and real-world coding scenarios aligned with enterprise-level Java applications. Looking forward to the next steps.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Initial Screening Round (Technical) - 1 : 30 hr round
20 mins - Technical QA session (Virtual)
1 hrs - Coding session (HackerRank)
First 20 mins they were asking technical questions around Spring Boot and Microservices architecture concepts, Domain driven architecture (Domain-Driven Design) & Kafka concepts and Spring config server and externalization of prosperities and environment management (Dev, SIT and UAT, PROD)
Next 1 hr is coding session in hacker rank.
4 multiple choice questions in basic java topics
1 medium java coding problem - question was about how to get average, max and min value out of list or array.
Second Technical Round - 1 hr (Virutal)
Asked question on below topics
1. how to do code reviews on the given rest controller method ?
2. how to use optional class in java 8 and applied the same in coding.
3. write SQL to join three different tables
4. how to rollback Kafka transactions on autonomous application?
5. write a code snippet to use java 8 streams and find the second highest number in list.
6. how to handle properties file in spring boot for multiple environment?
7. how to create spring boot application from scratch in technical terms?
I applied in-person. I interviewed at Photon (Bengaluru)
Interview
Depends on the client Interview,
Photon Interview was Average it was ease
Technical
Practical coding
Depends on the client Interview,
Photon Interview was Average it was ease
Technical
Practical coding
Is it so easy to crack the rounds of interview and so good to be true as well fine place to work you will learn something based on the interview questions itself
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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Basic react , javascript anf little bit of TS as well
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Photon (Chennai) in Feb 2026
Interview
They don't have knowledge on conduct the proper interview process. Lot of rounds they conduct. I have attended 7 rounds and then also they can't able to predict me. No updates they gave and not attend my calls.
