Akamai·QA Automation Engineer

Akamai QA Automation Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Apr 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview didn’t feel like a fair technical evaluation—it turned into something personal and accusatory.

After the hiring-manager stage, I moved into a panel with four interviewers. The early conversations were engaging and professional, but two of the interviewers quickly started questioning the authenticity of my educational and professional background, treating my path like it didn’t make sense.

The tone crossed a line for me. They asked pointed questions about why I studied abroad, why my education in India was different from my earlier background, and they kept implying dishonesty about my work. When I was doing a coding challenge, one interviewer commented in a dismissive way about how I

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