I applied online. I interviewed at Akamai in Sep 2025
Interview
The interview process was straight forward. Three round, first one was interview with team lead to talk about your experience and role. Second interview was coding that include react and algorithm a bit. The role was related to frontend so they ask about frontend concepts of react like hooks, state, performance. Last interview was with management. This was more a behavioural interview with alot of discussion about past project.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
React concepts of hook, state and performance. Coding challenge was a real life problem with requires you to get information from API and alter the results using data structures.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Akamai
Interview
Two stage interview process. First was a short recruiter call with no technical questions. Second was technical, covering API design concepts and PySpark fundamentals like Data Frames and basic transformations.
It was good, They hiring manager responded well and was bit tricky, but easy to clear if you prepare accordingly to the job description. The process was very good and quick.
Software Engineer (Software Developer II) applicants have rated the interview process at Akamai with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer (Software Developer II) roles take an average of 37 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Akamai overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Akamai as a Software Engineer (Software Developer II) according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
One on one interview: 18%
Presentation: 9%
Group panel interview: 9%
Background check: 9%
Personality test: 9%
Drug test: 9%
Skills test: 9%
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