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Updated Feb 10, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Account Executive at Akamai
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 (took 2 weeks)
The interview process back then was organized well. I was well updated and had no bad experience during the entire process.
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Negotiation Details
Negotiation was pretty much one sided. The HR manager is no longer there anymore just took advantage of my unemployment and ripped me. But I forgive him.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at Akamai
Posted Jan 30, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in San Mateo, CA (took a day)
Applied online. Got a call for phone screen after about a month. Phone screen consisted of questions on multi-threaded systems; deadlocks; live-locks; object-oriented programming (define polymorphism).
Got a call for onsite a week later. Onsite consisted of four rounds each technical ranging from coding in general; C++ programming (implement ++ operator for integer array) and data structures (implement LRU cache) and general design.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Test Automation at Akamai
Posted Jan 29, 2012
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Cambridge, MA (took 1 week)
The company has bunch of asinine clueless recruiters that act like they can screen talented engineers. Let me tell you the ignorant recruiters out there. Only good engineers can screen good engineers. Bean counters should stick with bean counting. The skill of quickly answering an asinine syntax question regarding an asinine programing language like C++ is not an engineering skill. This is a bean counting skill. These companies are producing massive amounts of spaghetti code until they get crushed by the sheer weight of their stupidity. I have a feeling this Titanic will get a deep gash in the near future. More than 70,000 servers deployed. Are you kidding me? Time to short this pig.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior QA Engineer Automation at Akamai
Posted Dec 28, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Cambridge, MA (took a day)
Phone screen followed by in person interview with 2 team members and the hiring manager - each one on one.
Interview in this case was too easy and not well channeled - lacking targeted questions or even one skill testing question.
Conducting a good interview is a skill like others - it requires experience.
The junior engineers who interviewed me allowed themselves to get sidetracked by one of their initial questions (tell me about your most recent project) and not get back to other targeted questions (in one case the person had prepared a list even)
The hiring manager for this particular role described the position and product needing testing, then asked very vague questions which almost required knowing what exact answer he was expecting. He did not give much opportunity to demonstrate knowledge by discussing previous work. He most likely was looking for the candidate to describe in detail how they would test a product of this sort.
Parking for interview was validated for either of 2 nearby garages.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior QA Engineer at Akamai
Posted Dec 24, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 2 days)
Worked with a company recruiter. Interview consisted of phone interview and 1:1 interview with company.
Interview Questions
Negotiation Details
I provided my salary history and requirement. Offer was non-negotiable.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Senior Software Engineer at Akamai
Posted Sep 28, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in San Mateo, CA (took a day)
1. half hour phone interview for experience and some c++ questions.
2. In person interview - 5 people ask questions - c++, algorithms
Interview Questions
Other Details
I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Customer Solutions Engineer at Akamai
Posted Sep 17, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took 4+ weeks)
One of the toughest interviews I had faced in my life (I have even been interviewed by Microsoft, Redmond, this interview was on par with that but you get to enjoy every bit of it ), Akamai does their best at making you understand what the company stands for and what exactly their are looking for in their candidates. They held an OpenHouse event for all the potential candidates where the candidates even get to have an informal chat with the managing director of Akamai, India.
The whole process begins with a telephonic interview where they see how good your at holding a normal conversation and how well your English is. During this they ask you about your resume and one or two logical questions. Answer them with ease don't show any signs of hesitation if you don't know the answer, humor them, might work!!
The next stage is presentation where half n hour you have to give a presentation on a topic given by the HR(dont worry you will be given ample amount of days to prepare for it) , and another half n hour on a topic of your choice. After the presentation and during the ppt they will ask you a couple of technical questions(typical brainstorming round where they test your presence of mind, your aptitude, how do you perform under pressure and stuff). Have a confident look and be honest in your answers, remember they know more than you do.
The next stage is a listening and writing round very similar to an IELTS/TOFEL (english test taken for US admissions) except that here you will be listening to Indian English rather than American/British English. This the simplest round.
The final stage is a HR round where there will be a One on One with a senior HR asking you typical behavioral questions. This round can be cracked by anyone with a good heart.
Overall the character of the interviewers were calm and collected, humorous, heart filled, intelligent, remember they reflect your behavior, so if your open-minded and happy then you will feel the same. At the same time they do pack in the suspense for you, you will call all the Gods you know by names hahaha.
So Good Luck guys!!! Just smile it helps a lot and don't hesitate.
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Negotiation Details
Akamai offers a very competitive and attractive packages, when compared with their competitors in India Akamai is equivalent to google and microsoft. There is a saying in akamai, this was said during the OpenHouse event and I quote " In Akamai, you perform well, we take care of you ".
Now if your a person working at google or microsoft and your looking for a better package then make sure you ask and also be sure to back up your number don't just pull numbers out of the air.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.
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Solution Architect at Akamai
Posted Sep 16, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took 2+ weeks)
1. Telephonic Round : questioned about my experience and basics about web technology
2. Telephonic Round: Questioned on DNS and HTTp
3. Presentation Round : Asked technical question
4. Logical Round : F2F interview Puzzles
5. Listening and Writtien Skills Test : Online Test
6. Telephonic Round: Inida Manager
7. Telephonic Round : Onsite Manager
8. HR Round : F2F
9. Salary Negotiation
The process was smooth and guidance was provided for clearing each round. Very supportive staff .
Interview Questions
Negotiation Details
It was fine ...if you really deserve what you are demanding there is no question of negotiation.
Other Details
I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Performance Engineer at Akamai
Posted Sep 16, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in Cambridge, MA (took a day)
The standard tech-company interview (I've had a lot of these over the years, and conducted many of them myself at former employers). First a recruiter talks with you on the phone to confirm that you're human. Then there's a first round of technical questions; in my case these were Unix-, networking-, and systems-focused. In person, they ask you some standard Unix questions, and there's some coding on the board. Maybe there are one or two questions that are real curveballs and require some real digging to answer them, but Akamai's interview questions are not nearly the hardest I've ever been given. The hardest I've ever been given were from Google, where they continually escalate the difficulty of the questions to test your limits.
Akamai's interviewers were good, but sort of middle-manager-y. I didn't get the sense that the group I was speaking with felt as though they were the élites.
Interview Questions
Negotiation Details
I had very little room to negotiate. They offered me a number, I asked for [that number] + $5,000 (or maybe $10,000; I forget); they said no; and I accepted the initial offer. Note that the initial offer was $20,000 more than any other company has ever paid me, so it was a terrific initial offer.
They kept asking me, as all companies do, to tell them how much I'd made at previous employers, and I never told them. I have to imagine that, had I told them what I had made previously, they never would have given me the raise that they did.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Akamai
Posted Aug 23, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in San Mateo, CA (took 1 week)
Had one phone interview and then 6-8 1x1 interviews. Technically the questions they asked were mediocre except one interviewer who stood out. Here are some of them I recollect - TCP/IP congestion control and handshake, duplicate a string, how would a c++ compiler behave in a certain scenario, code fibonacci, code if number is prime, how does a shell work.
Besides it was a little difficult communicating with the recruiter who'd go in circles and wouldn't give out a complete picture about the package.
Reason for Declining
Offer was not competitive in terms of compensation.
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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