Akamai·Software Engineer

Akamai Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

United StatesPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process was short but layered.

First I had a quick recruiter call that didn’t include any technical questions at all—more like a screening conversation.

Then I moved to a technical interview that went deeper into API design concepts and Python data tooling, especially PySpark fundamentals. I talked through data frames and basic transformations, connecting the ideas to how data would move and change across transformations. The overall technical difficulty felt on the difficult side, and it ended without an offer.

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