Akamai Software Engineer interview experience

There were three rounds: a group discussion, a technical round that lasted about an hour, and a managerial round that was also about an hour.

The group discussion was a real filter. I remember that most students got eliminated right there, so the pressure was immediate. In the technical round, they leaned hard into networking and security fundamentals, expecting me to connect concepts end-to-end rather than just recite definitions. DNS came up as an example of what they wanted: not just what DNS is, but how recursive and iterative queries work, how caching plays in, and how you’d