First contacted by a recruiter, she asked a few questions over the phone, such as TCP handshake and what HTTP code 301 means.

Then there was a personal interview at the Prague office. It was with two guys, but conducted separately. Both were quite friendly, introduced what Akamai is doing, and then the technical interview began.

• TCP handshake
• ICMP
• How traceroute works
• Give a Python regular expression usage example.
• Regular expression to filter lines with non-alphabetic characters.
• HTTP header, virtual server
• Why cookies are used
• Difference between TCP/UDP
• Given example C code function, fix errors.
• Given three C++ classes with inheritance, describe the order of their creation and destruction.
• You have a given numeric array, find the longest ascending part.
• What happens if you write an address in the HTTP address bar in a browser?