Akamai·Software Engineer

Akamai Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

IsraelPosted Jan 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first stage was a live Zoom interview with the hiring engineer, and the tone wasn’t welcoming—it came off blunt and not very nice.

After that, I was given a very time-consuming home assignment. I put a lot of effort into it, and when I turned it in, I received a no-reply style email that I hadn’t passed rather than any actual conversation.

In a separate similar experience, I went through an initial call with the hiring manager and then had a long Python home task. I worked on it for hours because I was asked to do the work as requested, but then I got ignored for a long stretch and eventually a disrespectful status email. The pattern for me was that the assignment demanded a big commitment, but the communication around

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