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Systems Software Engineer Interview Experience - Cambridge, Massachusetts

April 1, 2015
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Four coding meetings and two others with Hiring Managers. Hiring managers would ask behavioral questions and about projects. They would also like you to describe the product of your current work. The technical interview will include only a whiteboard exercise. HR friendly. Nice buildings and rooms. Nice vibes and they seem to have nice, friendly people.

Questions

Q1: Find the common ancestor of two nodes in a binary tree (not binary search tree). Interviewers didn't know the complexity.

Q2: Write an echo client-server model. It is expected to know the signatures of the APIs and the arguments passed in bind, listen, and accept.

Q3: Implement a ring buffer.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Akamai Technologies Systems Software Engineer role in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Success Rate

33%
Pass Rate

Akamai Technologies's interview process for their Systems Software Engineer roles in Cambridge, Massachusetts is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive33%
Neutral33%
Negative33%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Akamai Technologies's Systems Software Engineer interview process in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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