Akamai·Software Engineer

Akamai Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

New York, NYPosted Mar 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went in for a long, in-person day that started at 11am and ran until about 6:30pm.

After several rounds, I was told they would do a Webex session the next day, and that session ended up being a managerial check.

What made the whole experience feel unfair was how the follow-up played out. Three people were selected to move forward to that next Webex round, but I wasn’t one of them. I’d already been in the thick of the process, and I kept feeling like they’d had preferences before the final decision—like the rest of us were there to fill out the pipeline.

It also rubbed me the wrong way that the environment felt like it favored being non-threatening over being confident. I

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