Thanks for sharing your akamai interview journey—it’s really insightful! Sounds like their process was pretty smooth: a hackerrank coding round, a deep dive into your resume, and then a solid technical chat covering backend essentials like linked lists, JWTs, HTTP vs HTTPS, concurrency, database consistency, and token auth flow. Tough topics, but great prep.

Also, getting a “silver medalist” nod—even if the position filled—sounds like a nice honor and puts you in the loop for future roles. Keep it up, and I’m sure that experience will pay off next time you go in.