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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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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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Software Engineer at Akamai
Posted May 26, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in Cambridge, MA (took 3 weeks)
They are really good with their recruiting process. It involves a phone screen with the recruiter, followed by a phone interview with someone on the team you are trying to join. If they like you and think you know what you're talking about, they will then follow up with a long interview process (3-4 hours, involving about an hour with a couple of the other team members)
I felt confident in my knowledge area. I believe this helped me in providing a good interview.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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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
Average Interview
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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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Software Engineer at Akamai
Posted Aug 1, 2010
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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 May 2010 (took a day)
Very bizarre interview. A series of disjointed questions, but no discussion of the code samples I supplied. Followed by setting an appointment for an on-sight interview, only to be told by the recruiter a few days later that I had failed to pass the interview.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Akamai
Posted May 1, 2010 — 0 of 3 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 (took a day)
they call me from the head hunter
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Reason for Declining
not good enough
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