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Akamai Technologies Software Engineer II Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 21 Jan 2025

Akamai Technologies Software Engineer II Interview Experiences

2 interviews found

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I was interviewed before Jan 2024.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

1. It was a peer to peer HackerRank coding assessment. Difficulty level - Leetcode medium. Dpn't remember the exact question. All I remember is it required me to apply Greedy technique to solve the DSA problem.

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. 1. Some basic networking questions on OSI model. How entering an URL in browser would traverse through each OSI model layers? 2. Some core java questions related to working of Hashmap, difference between C...
  • Q2. System design - HLD question
Round 3 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. 1. A basic DSA question (Leetcode easy) to which I just had to explain the logic, not actual coding.
  • Q2. Questions on old projects, details around their architectures
  • Q3. System design for URL shortener - HLD only
  • Ans. 

    High-level design for a URL shortener system

    • Use a database to store original URLs and their corresponding short URLs

    • Implement a service to generate unique short URLs and redirect to original URLs

    • Consider scalability and performance by using caching and load balancing

    • Ensure security by validating input URLs and preventing malicious redirects

  • Answered by AI
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Sep 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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Round 2 - Phone interview 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Networking, SQL and python basics
  • Q2. Difference b/w UDP, TCP Linux commands Python basics in dict,tuple
  • Ans. 

    UDP is connectionless, faster but less reliable. TCP is connection-oriented, slower but more reliable. Linux commands are used for system management. Python basics include dict and tuple data structures.

    • UDP is connectionless and does not guarantee delivery of data packets.

    • TCP is connection-oriented and ensures reliable delivery of data packets.

    • Linux commands like ls, cd, mkdir are used for system management.

    • Python dict...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Akamai Technologies Software Engineer II interview:
  • DSA
  • Netrworking
  • Python
  • SQL
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare thorough on DSA questions such as linked list, trees.

Skills evaluated in this interview

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I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Jul 2022. There were 6 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Coding Question on Spring Security, OOPS, Threading, Find palindrome of a String. 3 coding questions total.
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. - Create an immutable class and further questions on the same. - isAnagram code - Find count of employees in employee table on SQL queries.
Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. - Find max, 2nd max salary in employee table - queries on group by nad order by - One Medium Array question from GeeksForGeeks - Reverse Linked list using recursion, without using recursion. Further questi...
Round 5 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Techno Managerial round. Mostly behavioral questions.
Round 6 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. The most interesting CTC discussion is where you will get excellent ideas from HR. I just loved the conversation with the HRs of BY.
  • Q2. Some behavioral questions again in HR round.

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Blue Yonder Software Engineer II interview:
  • GeeksForGeeks
  • Medium and Hard Level Coding
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be calm and well prepared entirely with coding questions for the Technical round. Basic DS Algo stuffs. This is for not only BY for also other product-based companies.
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Dynamic programming questions were asked
1) convert stack to queue
2) replace special characters in a string

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Dynamic programming - two questions were asked

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Learn more of DS & Algo
Do leet code
Practise linked list, trees, graphs and Dynamic programming
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Sep 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. String coding question
  • Q2. File operations
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
-

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Jun 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Large scale system design interview
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Two DSA questions related to Arrays & strings

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Design URL shortener
  • Ans. 

    Design a URL shortener service with features like shortening, redirecting, tracking, handling collisions, and providing analytics.

    • Use a hashing algorithm to generate unique short URLs from long URLs

    • Store mappings of short URLs to original URLs in a database

    • Implement a redirect mechanism to direct users to the original URL when accessing the short URL

    • Track the number of times each short URL is accessed and store this da...

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

(1 Question)

  • Q1. SOLID Principles
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I was interviewed in Nov 2023.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Technical interview includes questions in dotnet core, C# , angular and SQL. It includes questions like middleware,startup.cs file configuration, dependency injection,cors and char frequency counter progra...
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. In this round we had discussion regarding previous company project and ReactJS including concepts like life cycle , hooks and state management. It also includes scenario based questions related to team man...
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Mostly about yourself and salary discussion
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-

I applied via Campus Placement

Round 1 - Coding Test 

3 coding question in 1:30 hr
2 medium + 1 hard
1- greedy
2- binary search, prefix sum
3- dp (too hard)

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Low level design type question
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Hiring manager round. Asked project related questions plus basic hr questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - confident, clear concept, project knowledge
Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Properly align and format text in your resume. A recruiter will have to spend more time reading poorly aligned text, leading to high chances of rejection.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basics of Java How to implement interface and palindrome program etc
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Complete on Java multi threading, thread lock , synchronization and multiple thread communication etc
Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. 20 minutes interview some of multi threading questions and basic programs
Round 5 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Self introduction and salary discussion

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - well prepared for basic concept in java like oops concept

Akamai Technologies Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Akamai Technologies Software Engineer II interview?
Akamai Technologies interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Akamai Technologies interview process are Technical, Resume Shortlist and Coding Test.
How to prepare for Akamai Technologies Software Engineer II interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Akamai Technologies. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Akamai Technologies expect are Python, Javascript, Computer science, Backend and Budgeting.
What are the top questions asked in Akamai Technologies Software Engineer II interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Akamai Technologies Software Engineer II interview -

  1. Difference b/w UDP, TCP Linux commands Python basics in dict,tu...read more
  2. System design for URL shortener - HLD o...read more
  3. 1. Some basic networking questions on OSI model. How entering an URL in browser...read more

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