I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Photon in Jun 2025
Interview
I had a highly disappointing interview experience for a Kotlin developer position. Despite successfully answering all questions on **basic Kotlin, Flows, MVVM, and clean architecture**, and demonstrating my coding skills with **higher-order functions in an online Kotlin compiler**, I was unexpectedly rejected. The most frustrating part was the interviewer's apparent lack of basic understanding of **clean architecture**, as they couldn't grasp my explanations. This unprofessional and frankly pathetic approach from the interviewer leads me to give the company's hiring process a **0-star rating**.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Photon (Chennai) in Jan 2026
Interview
We had two rounds, one was technical screening round and one was technical round with client
After second I was stated that it is cleared but further nothing communication happen,
First round was taken by the recruiter itself given two coding question that i need to code and send in chat (question was easy level), second round was android discussion round with client (had questions on MVVM, retrofit, Api calls, viewmodel, etc)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How viewmodel survives configuration changes, diff between livedata and stateflow, some compose questions, lazy column optimisation, retrofit call methods, retrofit interceptors, hilt questions, @provides @inject
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Photon in Feb 2025
Interview
First of I would like to say this is the worst company so please don't go for it. Because I have very bad experience with this company so I will suggest that this company is not good. Last time in feb they gave me the offer letter and said that you have to join the company on 25th feb. And i was going there on 24rth they said that don't come and wait for another round and they taken another round and they said it was average so please wait after 15 days they said now client is on hold and we have another client if you are agree then we can give you joining for that client but the budget is less so again she did some bargaining and said that with 2 days i will confirm you again she didn't pick my call till 5 days and after 5 days she said now client is saying he has some less budget so again she did said same statement. Lastly i was frustrated and said that i am not interested.
