Akamai Interview Questions

Real, sourced Akamai interview questions across 1 role — 10 questions total, each with a structured answer outline. Updated for the 2026 hiring cycle from public interview reports.

Software Engineer (New Grad)
10 questions
Akamai's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, networking and distributed-systems fundamentals, and behavioral. Hiring spans the CDN edge platform, Akamai Connected Cloud (post-Linode acquisition), security products (Bot Manager, App & API Protector), and the Edge DNS platform. Loops emphasize global-scale distributed-systems thinking.