I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Akamai (San Jose, CA)
Interview
I interviewed for server software development team in San Jose. The key skill required was C++, data structure, algorithms.
1. Recruiter screen - general questions for technical fit. 20 - 30 mins.
2. Hiring manager round - 45min - 1hr
- some behavioral questions (eg. the one time when you ... )
- some experience describing questions
- some technical questions. e.g. reverse a linked-list. No code compilation required.
- general conversation on candidates expectations
3-4 technical interview rounds (45m - 1hr each)
- C++ questions
- algorithms
- tricky problems to implement
- time complexity related evaluations
- scaling related design questions
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Akamai in Mar 2024
Interview
I have applied via employee referral. Got response in 1 week. First Phone Screening round, then Two Technical round and One Managerial Round.
Interview Process was smooth and interviewer is friendly and good in nature.
Standard Behavioral questions during interview with hiring managers. Additionally a few questions related to networking, linux and simple questions regarding Big O notation. Overall, negative experience, they do not provide any feedback, recruiters are ignoring messages, very poor communication as well as standards with organization of interviews (comparing to other big companies).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Networking, algorithms basics, standard behavioral questions.