Akamai reviews

4.3

90% would recommend to a friend

(3,467 total reviews)
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Tom Leighton

91% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Akamai has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 3,467 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Akamai employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
4.0
Mar 29, 2026

Overall good place

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

CEO actually cares about employees and they are finally making inroads with executing on a successful cloud computing plan, particularly with the Nvidia partnership

Cons

Annual layoffs, US-based jobs are being offshored to India, Poland, Costa Rica.

5.0
Mar 25, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fully Remote Very generous PTO package Team members highly communicative and goal oriented

Cons

Management not very transparent Pay overall on the low end Difficult to find advancement

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