Super disorganized. People and roles were cool. I just wished I got a no on the first interview.

Recruiter reached out to me two months ago, and I wasn't really looking. Told me that Akamai was really quick to interview. (I got the feeling of two weeks max.) Sure, why not.

Had the first interview a week after. General interview questions with generic coding questions. I wasn't ready for the coding questions, so I thought I did bad. (A friend also interviewed that day with Akamai, and they didn't do coding questions because they didn't have a HackerRank link.)

Two weeks later, heard back to schedule "final" interviews for a week later.

Four interviews over two days. Finally got to learn what the role was for at the end of the interviews. Happy my guess was right. By now, I had used four different web IDEs for the interview. (The Google Doc one was the most memorable one, lol.) Very few JavaScript questions were asked.

Three weeks later, they wanted to have a "final" final interview. Asked project design questions. Asked some JavaScript questions. Asked if I knew TypeScript, which I had told everyone I don't. So, I wasn't asked the TypeScript questions. Looking back, I feel like TypeScript was a bigger requirement for the role that they didn't filter out sooner.

A week later, got a no. (Thanks to the recruiter. I was worried it was going to take longer or I would be ghosted.)

I hope they sort out the job description for others. I really felt like they didn't know what they were looking for. I was surprised knowledge of build tools and grammars wasn't on it, now knowing what the role was for.

A lot of HackerRank questions.