I applied for the role in July 2015 and received a call for a telephonic interview in February 2016. The interview process was very slow. A recruiter called me and set up a telephonic interview with the hiring manager. The telephonic interview was just a screening; they asked me to write a linked list program and explain my roles in teams.

I was then asked to fly down to Akamai's office for an interview. The interview consisted of three panels and a final hiring manager interview.

• The 1st panel asked me basic questions on linked lists and NAT.
• The 2nd panel asked me about design.
• The 3rd panel asked me about socket programming.

Overall, the ambiance and basic courtesy were good. However, the interview panels were very rude and mocked me about my immigration status. The 1st panel made comments during coding. It was very harsh.

1. Reverse a linked list example. A -> B -> C -> D If the user says two as the order of reversal, the output should be: C -> D -> A -> B

2. Create data structures for a NAT table. The entries should flush if there is no activity for 10 minutes.

3. Design an Akamai CDN network. The interviewer drew three circles: a. Client b. Akamai overlay network c. Origin How efficiently can a client connect to the origin through Akamai?

4. TCP socket programming.

5. SYN flooding problem - How to protect a TCP program from hacking.

6. How to handle multiple clients, say 1 million, in a TCP server.

7. What will be the size of the executable for these two programs?

a. class A { private: int a; };

b. class A { int a; };