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.