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Updated 19 Feb 2024

Akamai Technologies DevOps Site Reliability Engineer Interview Experiences

1 interview found

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Jan 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. What is CDN and what does akamai providing to its customer
  • Ans. 

    CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. Akamai provides CDN services to its customers for faster and more reliable content delivery.

    • CDN helps distribute content closer to end users for faster loading times

    • Akamai offers services like caching, load balancing, and DDoS protection

    • Customers benefit from improved website performance and reliability

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Why is CDN needed
  • Ans. 

    CDN is needed to improve website performance by reducing latency, increasing content availability, and offloading origin servers.

    • Reduces latency by serving content from servers closer to the user

    • Increases content availability by caching content on multiple servers worldwide

    • Offloads origin servers by distributing traffic to CDN servers

    • Improves website performance and user experience

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Intensive questions on Pandas and SQL queries

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Understand Pandas, SQL, Linux, CDN, DNS and awk commands

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview questions from similar companies

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Apr 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Aptitude test will a hackerrank test where it might have technical MCQ and/or coding test.

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Interviewer will test your logic building capability with puzzel/coding and technical questions and experience discussion.
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Its a normal discussion with HR about CTC and all.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - In TR interviewer are really good. They will help you and give hints. They mostly check if you have problem solving approch.

I applied via Recruitment Consultant and was interviewed before Jun 2020. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. A c++ written round. It contains good questions on c++ related to exception handling, virtual table concepts, smart_ptrs , etc ...

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be well prepared with your project.
Have decent but not great knowledge knowledge in DS/Algos
Know basics of system design.
Be good in your programming language.

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Dec 2020. There were 6 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Tech: Core Java concepts, difference between ArrayList and LinkedList, types of functional testing, CI/CD.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just be clear and crisp with your answers. Have a complete clarity with your aspirations and role based responsibilities.

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Dec 2020. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Depends on role. I gave interview related to SRE devops. Brush up basics related to Jenkins splunk kubernetes python kafka prometheus docker etc

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be clear on basics and fluent, confident when answering. In total 5 rounds including HR
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions on Java8, Multithreading, Collections, Spring boot
Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Sep 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me java8 features
  • Ans. 

    Java 8 introduced several new features including lambda expressions, functional interfaces, streams, and default methods.

    • Lambda expressions allow you to write code in a more concise way by replacing anonymous classes.

    • Functional interfaces are interfaces with a single abstract method, which can be implemented using lambda expressions.

    • Streams provide a way to work with sequences of elements and perform operations like fi...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Find 2nd largest number in an array
  • Ans. 

    Iterate through array to find 2nd largest number

    • Iterate through array and keep track of largest and second largest numbers

    • Handle edge cases like duplicates and empty array

    • Example: ['3', '5', '2', '7', '5'] should return 5 as the 2nd largest number

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain psvm in java
  • Ans. 

    psvm in Java stands for public static void main, which is the entry point for a Java program.

    • psvm is the method signature for the main method in Java programs.

    • It is used to start the execution of a Java program.

    • It must be declared as public, static, and void.

    • It takes an array of strings as an argument, which can be used to pass command line arguments.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Explain collection
  • Ans. 

    A collection is a group of related objects or data items that are stored together.

    • Collections can be implemented using data structures like arrays, lists, sets, maps, etc.

    • Collections allow for easy manipulation and organization of data.

    • Examples of collections include arrays of integers, lists of strings, sets of unique values, and maps of key-value pairs.

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I appeared for an interview in Jun 2024.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Hackerrank test consitin of 2 DSA questions and 1 api development question

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Please prepare DSA and your domain language at good level. DSA is usually asked between medium to hard level.
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
Selected Selected
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Reverse the linked list.
  • Ans. 

    Reverse a linked list by changing the direction of pointers.

    • Start with three pointers: current, previous, and next.

    • Iterate through the linked list, updating pointers to reverse the direction.

    • Return the new head of the reversed linked list.

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Internel working of Hashmap
  • Ans. 

    HashMap is a data structure that stores key-value pairs and uses hashing to quickly retrieve values based on keys.

    • HashMap internally uses an array of linked lists to store key-value pairs.

    • When a key-value pair is added, the key is hashed to determine the index in the array where it will be stored.

    • If multiple keys hash to the same index, a linked list is used to handle collisions.

    • Retrieving a value involves hashing the ...

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary Discussion

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