Akamai·Software Engineer

Akamai Software Engineer interview experience

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Positive

CanadaPosted Oct 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with email back-and-forth with the recruiter, then I had an early chat with the hiring manager that combined behavioral and technical questions.

From there, it escalated into multiple technical rounds: a live coding session where I worked on parsing log files and then a bash scripting exercise, a system design discussion for a couple of scenarios, and then a round that mixed Linux/operations trivia with a live debugging task over SSH focused on a networking issue. The final step was a team fit conversation with behavioral questions about conflict and communication.

Overall, it felt positive because everyone was friendly and the debugging part was genuinely interesting, but the live coding session was chaotic and some of the

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