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      Software Engineer Interview

      28 Nov 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Akamai in Nov 2017

      Interview

      I had a screening interview with one of akamai veteran recruiter(outdated with technology),to schedule an interview, he did not read my email properly(poor detail oriented recruiter) ,he did not call me on agreed schedule time and gave me excuse it happen to him first time in 21 year of his career this is not a great excuse to being a recruiter.well finally he took my interview after one week ,he started his question ,tell me about your project where you have faced biggest challenge though it's a good question however before asking any thing he must have explain me about the role and responsibility about the company even though i had pretty good knowledge of "what akamai does and how they started ,there customer and server and product" but i had some question and thought i will ask him but he skipped that conversation ,second question "tell me what happen when you enter website name in browser",i explain full DNS process for this question than he said can you explain me something else i tried to elaborate his question replied him r u asking me about REST he promptly said yes ,i am pretty sure he doesn't know abut any thing "what happen when we type website name at browser" because if he knows he must have ask me directly about REST or DNS, not with his outdated style question again he ask me about 3 way handshaking,TCP,UDP i explain him properly ,well mr veteran recruiter these question belong to network engineer rather than for pure software engineer role than he ask me what programming language are you comfortable? ,man you are hiring a software engineer not a developer all rectifier must understand coding(in any programming language) can be done by anyone but engineers solve the problem they bring the solutions one more outdated question in revert i ask him some tech question related to security product of AKAMAI and HA related question , he said HA feature has been sold to other company so he was kind of running from my question.after two week he replied me that i do not have enough tech knowledge,common man after 4 year as a professional software engineer this is awkward(i do not have enough tech knowledge),folks if you get a call from such kind of recruiter who pretend he or she has lot of technical knowledge but truly they do not know any thing do not waste your time to give interview , according to me they are just waste of time.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      tell me what happen when you enter website name in browser
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      28 Nov 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
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      No offer
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      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Akamai (Boston, MA)

      Interview

      I applied to their role on their website and a recruiter reached out to me to schedule interviews with the hiring manager and other members of the team. The interview process was drastically shortened for me because the hiring team wanted to fill the position very quickly, So the entire interview loop lasted only a week and a half. the interviews consisted of a behavioral with the hiring manager and a hackerrank technical with a engineering team member.

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