I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Akamai (Toronto, ON) in Feb 2024
Interview
Overall a very positive experience even though I didn't get the job. Everyone I spoke with during the interview process are super kind and patient. Definitely would be a place I would love to work in the future.
The interview process is basically a 30 minute video call with HR going over basic stuff like your job history, salary expectations, etc. Then you have a meeting with the hiring manager for about 30-45 minutes about the role, any questions you may have, and a couple of technically questions about bash shell commands. The third interview is technical about 2 hours long. One hour is with 2 people (junior SDET and a senior SDET). They do brief intros, go over resumes, ask some questions your experience. Then, they show you a code and ask you what the output would be along with a couple other coding questions about anagrams, string manipulations. Easy leetcode questions basically. The second hour of the interview is with 2 software developers who also ask you to code a few leetcode based questions and at the end they ask you some situational/behavioral questions.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Do you know Ruby? In a string of 1s and 0s, how would you find the number of zeros. (allowed to search online if you don't know ruby)
You have a function called iisWord that returns a true or false if it's a word. Accepts a string. You have another function that returns a List and the parameter is a string. You have to take this string and see how many words you can create with it. Ex. Input: Whotel. Output: who, hot, hotel.
The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Akamai in Jan 2025
Interview
The process took 3 months. First I was contacted by HR and then no response for few weeks. Then HR out of blue came back that Hiring Manager would like to interview. Hiring manager was good asked questions related to job profile. Then I was sent to panel interview. Had good experience. My interview went really well. After that total silence from HR. I sent few follow up emails after interview but HR did not even care to respond back.Finally after so many weeks the person who referred me requested HR to update me with the status of my application, after that HR sent an email notification that I was not selected. The entire process took 3 months. I feel like after putting so much effort and hope my time was wasted. My entire experience would have been better if I was informed within 1-2 weeks of interview that I was not selected and not had to push HR to update me with interview results.
I applied through other source. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Akamai (Bengaluru) in Apr 2022
Interview
The interview was on time and the interviewer was polite and addressed most of my queries
First round was HackerRank coding (programs on Strings, array and API's - easy level)
Second round was technical interview ( Java, API)
Third round was Techno- Managerial round (Testing related queries)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q : program to reverse a string
Q : program to find highest difference between two elements of array
Q : Asked to automate hitting an API request