Akamai Interview Questions & Reviews in San Mateo, CA
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Updated Jan 30, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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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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Senior Software Engineer at Akamai
Posted Sep 28, 2011
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4.0
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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
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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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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.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at Akamai
Posted Oct 26, 2010 — 3 of 3 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in San Mateo, CA (took 2 weeks)
I was contacted by an Akamai recruiter who found my resume on one of the popular sites. After some chatting with the recruiter I was scheduled for and passed the phone screen. A four hour in-person was scheduled for the following week (4 engineers X ~1 hour each) which went well and consisted of the common questions about data structures, algorithms, design, white board, and personal questions. Four days later I had my second on-site in the same 4 hour format, except this time it was the senior dogs. Here's where things went wrong, while I had great experience with engineers and the recruiter, the top people did not know the answers to their own questions!
One guy asked me to implement a factorial function and once I first talked through my algorithm he told me it was wrong. After a short discussion it turned he actually had Fibonacci numbers in mind. So you don't know the difference between the two? It happens I guess. Then he took my solution looked at it and apparently it differed from what he memorized online, so he said he will verify it later and walked out without even going it over with me.
Here where it gets really good. The DIRECTOR of engineering asked me a Perl question where the use of "split" was required. As I started writing my solution he rejected it on the basis that the outcome of one function call was wrong. I began to argue with him (respectfully) that I was right, to no avail. After 5 minutes he actually had me convinced that I indeed did not do it right which completely threw me off. Today I decided to double check using Perl reference guide and what do you know, I was right about it all along!
While I think I would have enjoyed working with the bright engineers at Akamai I am sure glad that I will not work under superiors that lack basic CS knowledge and cannot solve their own questions.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Skills Test, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineering at Akamai
Posted Aug 16, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in San Mateo, CA (took 2+ weeks)
Phone screening was quite general, the interviewer asked me about general datastructure related problem solving questions. Those questions are quite easy, at the end of the call the interviewer mentioned that I will get a call for on-site interview. The onsite interview is scheduled on the next week.
one interviewer asked me couple of problem solving questions which are again simple ones to tackle. This interviewer was tapping his iPhone whenever my response to the questions has started/ended. Not sure whether he is checking mails or recording my responses(which made me feel very uncomfortable). Another interviewer mentioned that the position requires strong knowledge in OS internals(kernal threads etc.. the job description says OS fundamentals). Another interviewer came in, and asked me to explain my previous projects. she did not ask me any technical questions at all. During the second interviewer itself I decided that this is not the kind of job I wanted. I was asked to brush very basics of networking concepts during the phone screening and here I am asked OS internals, kernal programming etc.
Overall Akamai's work is good and very impressive. But their interview process is not very professional compared to Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Amazon interview experience. I felt I wasted a week of my good time in preparing for the on-site interview, whcih I could have used to apply for other better opportunities. If you are not into Netoworking and OS internals (and you must posses through knowledge in those areas during the time of interview) this is not the right company for you.
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Visual Designer at Akamai
Posted Jul 12, 2010 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2010 in San Mateo, CA (took 5 days)
I was scheduled for a phone interview on a Thursday, a day before the July 4th long weekend. I had submitted my resume with an internal recruiter about 2 weeks before. Akamai really wanted to interview me, so the phone-interview took place. It was an hour long interview. The interview went very well. My interviewer was really satisfied with my replies. She also liked my work. Before the phone call ended, she even told that she is looking forward to meet me in person, and mentioned what I should be bringing in person. She also added that the next round would be easy and a non-technical round. There seemed a genuine interest. I was really excited, and I thought the prospect of me going to the in-person round was a definite thing. Then on next Tuesday (4 days later), I hear back from Akamai. I should appreciate their promptness. However the reply turned out to be a negative one. The mail said that my portfolio was not impressive enough. I really wonder what they saw before scheduling the interview. I am also confounded on what happened to the super-positive phone interview. I do not think they would have plenty of time in their hand to interview a candidate and then check the portfolio/resume. Well, this was my experience with Akamai.
The lesson learnt were: do not get excited even when phone interview goes really really well. And corporate may check one’s resume after the interview.
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Linux Kernel Engineer at Akamai
Posted Sep 28, 2009
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2009 in San Mateo, CA (took 2 days)
Everyone was nice enough. I had a phone screen then onsite interview with several of the engineers, and the hiring manager. They asked several general programming questions (Sorting, searching, etc.). Unfortunately they asked nothing related to operating systems, even tho the job was directly related to the Linux kernel. The interviews are not very skilled. They did very little to explain the questions (even when asking for more info) and gave you very little insight into what they wanted as an answer.
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