Akamai Technologies | SWE 1 | Remote/Bangalore | Feb 2025

YOE: 1+

Round 1 (Tech)

1. Balanced Parenthesis Problem
2. N closest points to origin
3. No. of ways to reach (n-1, m-1) from (0,0) in nxm grid

Was able to answer all of the questions and got a call for second round.

Round 2 (Tech)

1. Implement LRU Cache
2. Find median from data stream
3. Find min in sorted rotated array

Was able to answer 1st and 3rd but couldn't completely answer the second. Gave a few approaches with which the interviewer was happy that I am trying but in the end he asked me to go through this question as this is very interesting.

Round 3 (Manager)

Normal mangerial questions.

Result: Rejected
Not sure of the exact reason but I think it was due to fact that I didn't had any prior experience with multi-threading programming which was required in that role.

Got a second chance of interviewing with a different team after requesting the recruiter.

Round 1 (Tech)

1. A variation of best time to buy and sell stocks problem.
2. Lots of theoretical questions on networking.
3. K most frequent elements

Was able to answer all of them. First one was a bit tricky but was able to figure it out. (I was pleasantly surprised that I figured it out.)

Round 2 (Tech + Manager)

1. Easy level question (don't exactly remember, but I solved it using normal sorting)
2. Lots of question on networking both theoretical and implementation wise.
3. HLD for some requirement that he provided.
4. Normal managerial questions.
5. Current responsibilites.
6. Behavioral questions (teamwork, ownership, challenges)

He was mostly satisfied with my answers.

Result: Offered