Akamai Systems Software Engineer interview questions
based on 11 ratings - Updated Jan 20, 2017
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Systems Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Akamai with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Systems Software Engineer roles take an average of 1 day to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Akamai overall takes an average of 24 days.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Akamai (Bengaluru)
Interview
I had got a call from the recruiter. I had two rounds one with the lead engineer and another with the hiring manager. The interviewers were friendly. Some of the questions asked were related to my current projects and some behavioral questions were also asked.
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Question 1
How to find distance between two nodes in a graph using map-reduce?
I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Akamai (Bengaluru) in Jul 2012
Interview
I applied to Akamai through campus placements, where I had to give an initial written test. Within a couple of hours, the shortlisted candidates were called for interviews. The process lasted a whole day with about 5 rounds of back to back interviews, 4 of them being technical. The process was clean and interviewers were friendly.
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Question 1
Every round focussed on some aspect. First round was mainly on programming languages. Second round on OS and Networking concepts. Third round on puzzles. Fourth round was coding.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Akamai (Bengaluru) in Jul 2015
Interview
1 round of telephonic interview - 3 questions were asked based on Linked Lists, hash table, multi threading and some other questions. 2nd round was onsite, 2 persons from the team showed up. Basic DS questions, Stacks, Recursion, Linked Lists, Multi threading and thread synchronization based questions - went quite well. 3rd round was taken by the same person (mostly lead) who took the initial tele round. A real time task design question and 1 hour time. You need to come up with the Data Structure and math required to compute the data. I was very disappointed as I could not clear this round, as the question was not very difficult but I just could not do well.
I think its a great place to work with lot of young and energetic crowd and talented people. The interviewers were knowledgeable and very comfortable to speak with. Overall a good experience and a disappointment.