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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
      Nov 6, 2014

      Smart people, meaningful work

      Senior performance engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Some very smart co-workers, fascinating work, our products make the Internet run. Easy access to upper management. At Akamai, you get to learn about how the Internet work, and about how other companies use the Internet. Awesome work-life balance, and the people here are wonderful - nice people with families. Great diversity here too - there are people with PhD's in physics, math, and computer science, even neurobiology. Not just code monkeys.

      Cons

      Compensation is not competitive with Facebook/Google; the company is at an awkward size. We're not a startup, and though we try to recruit the same people who go to Facebook & Google, we don't have the cash to compete with those giants. Documentation on internal technologies can be hard to find.

      4.0
      Nov 26, 2013

      Very convenient

      Senior technical project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexible hours Work from home Good benefits Smart people Interesting projects Akamai anywhere (work from home program)

      Cons

      Politics No clear career path Negative people might stab you in the back Lousy sales team takes credit and throws you under the bus for any mistake

      5.0
      Sep 3, 2013

      After a decade, I still love this company

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Lots of smart people to work with and the job is very interesting. You get a chance to change the world everyday by helping Akamai's customers with new project (almost every cool Internet service out there uses them like top social sites, all big news sites, media sites, etc). Lots of internal chances to grow (if you are good). Good health benefits, lots of funded culture clubs to choose from (like fishing, surfing, scuba diving, chess, coffee, biking, beer, etc.), free drinks and food (varies from office to office). Over the years I got approached by most of Akamai's competitors and interviewed with some of them to see which benefits and salary they offer, and I am happy to say that none of them pays as well or offers comparable benefits.

      Cons

      Hard to think of cons... Well the Akamai provided coffee in San Mateo sucks (some people have brought their own espresso machines though). Other Akamai offices I visited have cool espresso machines, so I guess this is just in San Mateo.

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