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      Akamai

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      Akamai reviews

      4.3

      89% would recommend to a friend

      (3,476 total reviews)
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      Tom Leighton

      91% approve of CEO

      75% positive business outlook

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      Akamai has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 3,476 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
      Feb 19, 2013

      so far so good

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      excellent work culture, get to work on many technologies... no pressure or deadlines

      Cons

      less challenging work nothing else

      2.0
      Feb 17, 2013

      Overall very unfriendly environment. Incompetent first-line managers.

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Depending on your manager, telecommute can be encouraged or frowned upon.

      Cons

      Most of people only keep to themselves. You never know when and who will stab you from behind even just when you think everything is going alright. A lot of managers are extremely short-sighted. They bend forward and take every requirement from Product team and turn them into a CR (change request, just like a bug) without even considering the overall impact to the system and pushing back when necessary. I guess that the manager's performance is evaluated by the no. of CRs they close. That's why they want to open/close as many as possible. There is hardly any chance for advancement. Unless you're one of the boss's pets, you're pretty much stuck in the same position for many years until either your boss moves up or you can't take it and get moving yourself. Advice for the potential employees: work hard to get the level as high as possible since it'll be very hard to move up once you join.

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