Time-consuming recruitment process, took 6-7 weeks to receive the final job offer. It started with a short call with recruiter to know if I'm possibly interested in the role and how experienced I am in certain areas relevant for the Security Solutions Architect role. The next stage was approx. 50 mins call with the same recruiter during which I was asked questions about myself, my current job and experience; then the recruiter switched to English and asked 3 basic technical questions (briefly describe TCP, UDP, DNS etc.). For the next stage I was invited to the Akamai office to meet 2 other Solutions Architects from the team, one experienced with Network Security and the other one with Web Security and the whole conversation was something like 90 mins long. Had to answer 30-40 technical questions from the mentioned IT security areas from both Architects, all of them had to be answered as briefly as possible. The next part was about what's my expectations, how do I see the Security Solutions Architect, what do I know about the company and why I chose it and what makes me the perfect candidate for this job etc. For the final stage I was given a topic (Security headers in HTTP) - had 1 week time to prepare 25 minutes long presentation which was to be presented to the manager of Security Solutions Architect team over phone. 1-2 questions to each slide I prepared, after I was done with presenting I was asked another 3 technical questions from the topic. Had to be prepared from high and low level perspective since the questions were meant to simulate dealing with technical and non-technical customer queries. Although it was a very long process the whole thing was done very professionally and the attitude of the people involved in the recruitment process was above my expectations really - very friendly and positive people willing to rather know what I can learn and what I know rather than to discover what I don't know. Very positive and interesting experience and an interesting company to work for and actually it was much easier than I thought.

You have to make a presentation by using a whiteboard about a web technology with a comprehensive language even for non-technical people. You can start with a simple plan but be careful to be on scope and on time.