I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Akamai (Bengaluru) in Nov 2015
Interview
HR Call - Briefs you about the company, more like an open interaction seeking your aspirations and expectations from the company
Manager Call - More of the details about your current employer and things like why do you want to join Akamai. Why are you leaving your current employer.
Technical Telephonic - This will be on one of the topics given to you by HR
Onsite Presentation - This will be about giving presentation on a technical project. This is the most difficult part of the interview process where most of the candidates are filtered.
Logical Round - Mostly few open ended and closed ended questions probing your analytical and problem solving skills.
Day of an SA - This is where one of the SA would come and explain what an SA would do on a day to day basis. His roles and responsibilities.
Manager Round - This would be your account Manager inspecting you if you are up for the job. It basically boils down to if he thinks you are up for the job.
HR round - Compensation discussion.
Listening and Email writing skills - Self explanatory.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The manager gives you a scenario and asks you how will you handle this situation?
Since I don't care at all about money, I asked for the exact same salary I currently earn, instead of asking for 20% more than my current salary, which is what literally everybody does.
The recruiter accused me of thinking only about money and made clear no assessment of my skills would have been performed in order to establish if I'm worth that salary or not.
The day after I got an email stating that I was not selected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Salary expectations in terms of gross salary per month
First round: 30 min HR - quick presentation of myself and description of the role
Second: 1h with the hiring manager - open discussion
Third: Technical interview 30min - list of questions to answer with no feedback from the interviewer
No feedback at the end of the process for more than a month
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical questions about Network components, Cloud architecture, Security, CDN...
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Akamai in Mar 2024
Interview
First round is a screening by in-house recruiter, second round consists of an interview with a manager and technical interview with someone who's currently in the same (or similar) role. Final round is a presentation for a group of Akamai representatives.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral questions about how you get to an understanding of the pains and challenges of a customer or prospect as well as a broad range of technical questions relating to architecting solutions.