Akamai reviews

4.3

89% would recommend to a friend

(3,480 total reviews)
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Tom Leighton

91% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Akamai has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 3,480 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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1.0
Nov 26, 2024

The 1990s Are Calling

Recommend
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Pros

You can work here and do very little. Remote options.

Cons

Stuck in its 90s legacy, and obsessed with MIT founders and MIT. Still pushing DEI training which is linked to performance reviews… values DEI/ESG, legacy, and middle management over innovation and productivity/profit.

4.0
Nov 25, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Front-line staff and managers are professional, courteous, helpful and hardworking.

Cons

Senior management in the company (VP and higher) is focused on cost cutting without understanding what front-line teams are actually doing. They don't value nor prioritize innovation and consistently fail to inspire teams downstream. There is no apparent strategy to turn the company around other than continuing to buy companies in the Security space. What does Product Management do? What new products are they working on? How are they steering the acquisition strategy? Engineering teams don't have enough resources to maintain existing products. The frustration of senior leadership is beginning to show as they beat-up on downstream teams and pressure them to deliver more while our colleagues are disappearing from layoffs each year..

5.0
Nov 25, 2024

Perfect place to work

Recommend
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Pros

1. Full flexibility in working hybrid 2. Good people with an "always yes" for helping and team collaboration. 3. First-class professional and technical challenges. 4. Perfect work-life balance.

Cons

1. The company's stock is floundering. 2. The ATS socks (they are replacing it in 2025).

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