Akamai·Software Engineer

Akamai Software Engineer interview experience

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Tel Aviv-YafoPosted Jan 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews leaned heavy on technical depth, and the difficulty didn’t match what I expected for the profile.

I started with a hiring manager round, then I went into multiple technical rounds. The technical discussions included DSA and system-design elements, and I also ran into domain-specific questioning tied to what the platform engineer role would require—Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes.

One of the most frustrating moments was getting a dynamic programming problem that felt advanced and frankly unreasonable for that kind of platform-focused profile. In another technical stage, I had two technical interviews where one was straightforward and LeetCode-like, but the other felt improvised and

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