Akamai·Software Engineer

Akamai Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Boston, MAPosted Mar 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience was derailed less by the interviews themselves and more by how the process was run.

Communication was rough from the start: I had to initiate contact and didn’t get clear updates, and at one point I was asked about my availability and then heard nothing for about a week. That cycle happened multiple times and it was honestly frustrating, because I was treating the schedule like it mattered.

When the interviews finally did happen, the framing I was given didn’t match what I experienced. I was told it would be mostly behavioral with some technical mixed in, but the actual final interview ended up being technical throughout, which threw me off because I’d prepared with a

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