The first round was an exploratory interview to understand if you fit the role, your daily activities, your daily job, team size, etc. It also covered Akamai and your project-related technical questions.

The second round was a mix of management and technical questions, asking about CDN, performance, and top challenges in the CDN environment.

The third round was system design and technical.

The fourth round is a managerial round with a senior director.

The last round is salary discussion with HR.

Technical questions about CDN, caching, load balancers, push and pull models, horizontal and vertical scalability, distributed and local caches, microservices, and Kafka pipeline-related questions.

Managerial questions about what you look for when hiring or building a team, how you motivate a demotivated team, how you work with underperformers, what your daily activities are, and reviews, retrospectives, and Scrum ceremonies.