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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      23 Jul 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY

      Other Principal Software Engineer interview reviews for Akamai

      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      20 Sept 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Akamai (New York, NY)

      Interview

      Initial phone interview then onsite. On-site started fine with the manger of the group. The panel interview is where it went off the rails. The panel was trying to flex on each other technically and were more focused on asking esoteric, irrelevant questions to humiliate rather than actually find candidates. I left the interview early, before the third face to face. I will certainly never interview there again and tell everyone to stay away.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      describe the ring buffer algorithm in tcp in detail
      Answer question
      4

      Application

      I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Akamai

      Interview

      All my interviewers were super cool and allowed me enough time to express myself. In the end, they were happy and choose a different candidate based on stack ranking, as communicated to me. Only (hugely) disappointingpart was poor as well as infrequent HR/Recruiter communication and goof-ups. It definitely made the difference in my case. Also, It seems they just don't care about the organisation. 1) they are providing horrible experience to candidates 2) Also, I expect the, to transfer a deeply evaluated profile to other open vacancies/managers to speed up hiring (win:win). But they barely doing there current day tasks, forcefully; it's foolish to expect more from them; from candidates p.o.v. it may even seems inhuman. To conclude, overall good, especially team/tech-stack; I will happily apply and join, in future if feasible.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Modular code : for a Leetcode easy-medium level problem Code Review: Understand a real world use case( described problem) and vague code. OOPS: Generic System Design Problem Overall Project/Technical Discussion
      Answer question

      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      29 Jul 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Akamai (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2021

      Interview

      Got mail from Akamai recruiter, then first round with hiring manager, deep dive about my past projects, then next 6 rounds of interviews, each interview has 2-panel members. Overall I like the process. I did very well all rounds. The bad thing was they never responded after the interview, I spend lots of time for the interview, it's a minimal courtesy to give updates about the final decision. I really regret attending the interview.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Medium level Algorithms, all coding challenges are around data, B Trees related, Index related. NoSql DB design related.
      Answer question
      1