Akamai reviews

The recent marketing leadership team that was hired approximately 2+ years ago, is extremely shady, from the CMO down. I dare you to be good at your job and try to do decent work in that department. The problem is, if you are good at what you do but, you are surrounded by unqualified people in the wrong roles, you are inevitably going to disagree with them. That doesn't fly with the egos in this marketing leadership team. They are only interested in "Yes Men." You can almost surely expect to be on the next round of layoffs if you don't get with their ill-conceived program. A lot of talented people have gone out the door for no good reason. Did I mention the layoffs? They happen annually as well as random points throughout the year. Job security is non-existent in the marketing department. There is no actual plan in any of the day-to-day work, no overarching strategy in the marketing, and no analytics being used improve the effectiveness of the work. Even though the tools are readily available, it takes competent leadership get the department to properly put them to use. There's little to no cooperation between teams and zero accountability when things get really screwed up (and they do get screwed up often. Projects take so much longer than they ever should. Work is finished and approved, then reworked constantly, because of the lack of clear leadership, guidelines, decision rights and strategy. The amount of money being wasted in the department is crazy. Bottomline: It's miserable in this department, run.

No matter how you perceive Akamai today, they are basically a start-up company with a start-up attitude to strategy and employees. If you joined during the early days and part of the old boy network, you will be secure and protected. If you're part of any new hire in last few years, be prepared to be let go in a heart beat, nobody will back you up from the management team as they will only be worried about their own jobs. The sales teams are shocking to work with, they are mostly fly-boys, complain about Akamai all the time and how they could earn more money elsewhere and brag about their Porsches and R8s all the time, no commitment to the company. I met many sales people who were in Akamai, left, rejoined and wanted to leave again which Akami embrace as they're only interested in the dollar. The experience of the management team is very poor and they wouldn't stand a chance in any other business I have worked in. They are used to hiding in their offices, taking no ownership or responsibility. The current CEO has no balls since Elliott Management took a hefty stake in the business. Elliott now runs Akamai and the CEO and his inexperienced management team dance to the beat of the Elliott drum. The company is being shaped by Elliott for imminent acquisition so if you're reading this and thinking of joining then I would advise waiting as you might not be in your job long; sleep easy though as the CEO and his inexperienced management team will make a lot of money out of this. Finally, the HR team are useless, have no power, no control, another bunch of inexperienced individuals given power but can't help you, only help themselves.