Akamai·Software Engineer

Akamai Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

BengaluruPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop started with a campus-style path where I ended up going through three rounds: a first technical screen, then a manager round, and finally an HR round.

The overall difficulty felt average, and the questions were largely rooted in what showed up on my resume.

In the technical part, the coding problems were classic DSA-style tasks. I remember being asked about intersecting two linked lists and also writing a function to validate an IPv6 address. The next step leaned into technical depth around cloud-native concepts—Kubernetes and microservices—and it also included questions tied specifically to the company’s product context. That set of rounds ended with a rejection; it was a pretty clean, expected process from a logistics standpoint, but I

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