I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Akamai (Boston, MA) in May 2016
Interview
I applied for the role in July 2015 and got a call for telephonic interview in Feb 2016. The interview process is very slow. A recruiter called me and set up telephonic with the Hiring manager. Telephonic interview was just screening, he asked to write link list program and asked me to explain my roles in teams.
I was asked to fly down to akamai office for interview. The interview consist of 3 panels and final hiring manager interview.
1st Panel asked me basic questions on link list and NAT.
2nd Panel asked me about design
3rd Panel asked me about socket programming
Overall the ambiance, basic courtesy was good. But the interview panels was very rude and mocked me about immigration status. 1st panel passed comments during coding. It was very harsh.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1: Reverse a link list example
A -> B -> C -> D
If the user says two as the order of reversal, the output should be
C -> D -> A -> B
2. Create data structures for NAT table. The entries should flush if no activity for 10 mins.
3. Design Akamai CDN network. Interviewer drew three circles. a. Client b.Akamai overrelay network c.Origin. How efficiently Client can connect to origin through akamai.
4. TCP socket programming.
5. SYN flooding problem - How to protect TCP program from hacking.
6. How to handle multiple clients say 1 Million in TCP server.
7. What will be the size of executable for these two programs
a. class A {
private:
int a;
};
b. class A {
int a;
};
Interview was for senior software engineer,.
Round 1: DSA round Q1. Find the intersection of Link list Q2: write function for validation of IPV6 IP.
Round2: Technical Round, Asked question about Kubernetes, microservice and specific to there product, Rejected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the intersection of Link list Q2: write function for validation of IPV6 IP.
Una flipada de ejercicios de Python de como los resolverias estilo live coding que no vas a hacer nunca en el puesto que te toque. Una pérdida de tiempo brutal.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Akamai (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Nov 2025
Interview
Webex interview.
An hour and a half technical session with the team leader and another team member.
Most of the time, they talk about designing a system that you have experience with, asking questions about the design decisions, and asking you to draw a diagram of the system using Webex's annotation tools, which don't work properly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find an error in an obsolete and obscure Python method that you'll never use in 2025 - the error is regarding a low-level functionality of the CPython interpreter.
