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      Akamai

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      Akamai reviews

      4.3

      89% would recommend to a friend

      (3,473 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 3,473 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 26, 2019

      Easy-going, DIY engineering culture - good alternative to lucrative pressure cookers AAPL, Google, etc.

      Very senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Great work-life balance. - Lack of intense pressure, lay-off threats, etc. - Fair compensation, evaluation, if you take process seriously. - Company is always profitable and stable. - Company is very important to Internet's stability/performance.

      Cons

      - Lack of intense pressure also means lack of accountability and do-little employees and even products/teams. - A lot of meetings and talking; lack of smooth, repeatable processes in development. Tons of process but it's not efficient. - Hiring is inflexible and cheap (lets the Googles and Apples take potential hires away based on higher compensation; lack of flexibility in opening positions to suit referred talent; and other absurd budget-related failures). - Very cheap in terms of incidentals (equipment, parties). - Almost all tech built in-house since 1999 -- slow to benefit from open source community; almost no contribution to open source either. - Company always profitable but seems to be coasting in terms of breaking through w.r.t. market opportunities.

      5.0
      Jan 15, 2019

      Good work life balance

      Sdet2
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - smart people - flexible work schedule - reasonable expectations

      Cons

      - tough commute - hard to keep talents with the right skill set

      1.0
      Aug 3, 2018

      RUN the other way

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      company continues to have a strong/positive reputation in the industry (for now)

      Cons

      a complete lack of any real leadership as senior management is disconnected from reality (and not interested) many management layers with directors reporting to directors - often with few (if any) direct reports mostly outdated systems and tools; new tools not integrated with old inefficient, bureaucratic processes (widely acknowledged and joked about, but never addressed) unclear roles and responsibilities toxic political culture no interest in addressing widely recognized issues - except occasional pep talk presentation from executives with zero meaningful change infighting between teams that should be collaborating huge egos abound us versus them between tenured and newer employees too many to list them all...

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