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      Akamai

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      Akamai reviews

      4.3

      89% would recommend to a friend

      (3,478 total reviews)
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      Tom Leighton

      91% approve of CEO

      75% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Akamai has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 3,478 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
      2.0
      Aug 2, 2013

      A stressful experience

      Operations team
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The main pro is that the company pays well and you are likely to work with very intelligent people. You will learn new skills while you're there.

      Cons

      The company is having growing pains. Most of the people there are the ones that held on through the dotcom burst. While that makes them very engaged in the success of the company it also make it very clicky... and tough to be a new person. For at tech company they're surprisingly uptight and have a generally tough culture.

      5.0
      Jul 22, 2013

      Excellent prospects for the future; flexible work-life balance

      Engineering
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      A company of innovation and pioneering. Stability. As long as the internet exists, so too will the need for Akamai's services. Excellent work-life benefits, unlimited vacation policy, ability to work from home. Having a technologist and the co-founder as the new CEO shows how important it is to have someone at the top who really understands the company.

      Cons

      As other reviews have pointed out, it's true that this is a political organization the further to the top you get. I actually don't think Tom Leighton is part of it, but certainly beneath him there's lots of politics going on. It takes a long time for change to happen. In certain departments the stress levels are brutal. In the Cambridge location, there's really not much "culture" i.e. colleagues getting together after work, drinks on Fridays, etc. That doesn't really happen on the East Coast the way it does at the West Coast offices. Wish that would become something that happened more often here with the support of upper management.

      3.0
      Jul 17, 2013

      Mixed thoughts on company culture.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The company seems to have a good footprint in the content/web acceleration space. they value everyone's opinion.

      Cons

      Very political for the size of company, takes a longtime to get consensus to move the needle.

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