I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Akamai (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2017
Interview
Phone interview coupled with coding. Talked to the manager and she sounded nice and knowledgeable. Subsequently talked to a developer who claimed to be there for more than 10 years. He started asking general questions about experience and such and was eager to jump into the coding part.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Find dictionary words from a scrambled text ("csary yarm" -> scary mary)
2. Write an efficient function to compute 'Fibonacci' number
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.
