Akamai Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – 1. the recruiter reached out to me after applying on Akamai's website and had a brief chat regarding salary requirements, position details..etc. then he mentioned that he would set up two phone calls - one with the hiring manager and another technical interview with another senior solutions architect.
2. the two calls with the hiring manager and senior architect went pretty well. hiring manager was interested more in my attitude and was focussing on the basics (some of which were rusty) - HTTP caching headers, HTTP responses..etc, what is the difference between a codec and container. and some questions outside of work - what 2 numbers add upto 10? Very casual and it went well. Second call with the sr architect went well too - Can you please describe the TCP session setup? and TCP congestion avoidance algorithms. After this i was invited onsite at San Mateo for more interviews
3. Onsite @ San Mateo - had 6 45 min interviews including one more with the hiring manager, an account manager for which you might be potentially working with, 2 senior architects and another practice manager. over all went very well, interviews were focussing more on the attitude. the senior architects were more interested on the technical side - DNS flows, does the DNS need to be an authoritative if you are using a CDN..etc, what are some of Akamai's offerings in the DNS space and some fundamentals of how they work
4. After the onsite interview, i had one more phone interview with the director of the services organization - he wanted to find out more about the different trends in video streaming - hwat problems is MPEG DASH trying to solve ? What is HTML 5? and also outside or work - what are your hobbies?

IMO all interviews went pretty well and it was a good experience All the people i talked to were pretty great and knowledgeable in their respective fields. I feel 45 min per interview is not much time to show case all your skills and what you can bring to the table. I did not notice the time running out on almost all interview slots. But a great place to work for.

Reason for Declining – Unfortunately i had to decline since i was offered another position within my organization which better aligned with my long term goals

Interview Details – Recruiter called me up in 24 hours. He again interviewed technically for about 45 minutes, on core java. I was asked to come on site and had 4 rounds of interviews. I was again asked to come onsite at a different date and that was just 2 rounds.

Questions weren't that difficult. Major portion were on java/j2ee and design concepts.

Negotiation Details – Recruiter was tough to negotiate. Accepted what I was offered.

Interview Details – Got a call from a recruiter. He asked some background question and then 3 technical question on networking. Th position asks C/C++ and TCP/IP knowledge
1. What is a DNS
2. Diff. between TCP/ UDP
3 Three way handshake protocol

Next round a 30 minute technical interview with the manager.
1.What is a static variable
2.What is memory leak, how does C C++ handle this
3. what is the difference between int const var and int const *var
4. Virtual function
5. What happens next when you type a url in the browser

Still waiting for the onsite interview call

Interview Details – I was referred by a friend at the company. I went through an initial phone screen with a recruiter, then I did a technical phone screen with the hiring manager, then I did an in-person with the hiring manager and finally I did a series of 5 interviews that ranged from technical to soft skills with a variety of employees at the company.

Negotiation Details – I didn't negotiate very much, I typically don't. I take the approach of laying out my expectations at the beginning of the interview process of what I'm looking for in terms of compensation, benefits, time-off and then only negotiate if the offer doesn't match what I laid out in the beginning.

Interview Details – Interviewed with potential sales colleagues and manager (first interview) followed by a 2nd interview a week later. The followed up with a 3rd interview with additional management over a three week period.

Was told I was a leading candidate and would be in touch - never heard back at all even after following up by email and phone.

Interview Details – 2 phone interviews and then 1:1 interview.
 1st phone interview was basic Linux based questions ,2nd interview was taken by team lead on background research and experience.
1:1 was 5 hours long.
coding on whiteboard , info of their team and what they do , linux /scripting questions and some problem solving QA questions.

Interview Details – Interview was with technical recruiter. Very nice individual. Informative and knowledgeable about the company

Interview Details – After applying online, I was contacted by Akamai's internal recruiter who did a basic check of my background to see if it fit the job description. I was contacted then a week later for an additional phone interview by a Service Line Manager, and again the following week by another Service Line Manager from the west coast.

At that point, I was asked to come on site for an in-person interview. This interview was about 5 hours, and was with about 6 different people. This ranged from meeting with who would later become my direct report supervisor, a Senior Sales Manager, a Practice Manger, two other senior solutions engineers, and an account executive that would be paired with whomever was selected for the role.

This interview helped give me a great insight into the culture of the company and helped me realize how many smart people there actually were at all levels of the organization. The number of people who had been there for 7+ years was a great indication that people were happy with the company and not just there for a few years before moving onto the next "big thing".

At the end of the week, I was contacted again by my future supervisor who had a few additional questions for me. At the end of the conversation, the supervisor indicated he was interested in moving forward with me and began salary discussions. After asking my requirements, he said they would make an offer that he did not want to go through multiple rounds of negotiation and that he felt I would be happy with.

Later that day, I was contacted by HR who gave me verbal details of the offer and indicated he would overnight the official offer letter the next business day. The offer exceeded my original requirements and then some.

Negotiation Details – There was not any real negotiation. After asking my requirements, they actually exceeded the requirement. The company indicated they wanted to move quickly and made an offer to end discussions I was having with other companies at the same time.

Interview Details – I was refereed to the recruiter through an acquainted.
I had a phone interview with him.
The recruiter was very nice, but the job was already taken.