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

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
Jan 21, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Akamai is a great company to work for in terms of talent and the kind of work they do. The colleagues you will work with and extremely bright, talented and motivated. You will be exposed to a lot of different areas in the Internet world and there's a lot to learn. Most groups are open and you can always just go walk to someone and ask about their product.

Cons

Career development is almost non existent. Moving between different levels of engineering doesn't really matter much. There's still a lot of old guard in the company and it's not easy to compete against them in terms of promotions (which in a way is good). A lot has changed in the recent years with a number of acquisitions and the company is no longer as tight knit as before. Benefits are nothing to write home about.

1.0
Aug 2, 2025

Dysfunctional and reactive

Recommend
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Pros

Work from home, some big company perks like RSUs

Cons

Entire org is very reactive so Marketing is following that as a strategy as well. Leadership seems extremely nervous about revenue and strategic direction, jumping and changing course whenever Cloudflare does something. CEO doesnt seem to listen to his team and just tells people what to do, stock is stagnant and morale is terrible. In Marketing the Leadership is out of touch with reality or burying their heads in the sand. Lack of clear direction and what teams actually do and how they work together. If anyone voices a concern or shows a problem they're labeled a trouble maker and exiled. A culture of favoritism and bullying has now emerged with leaders and HR protecting middle managers who are openly bullying staff members and are not producing actual results. People are scared to speak up for fear of retaliation as HR is not a trusted resource and just assist in management cover ups of issues.

5.0
Jul 17, 2025

Really great place to work

Recommend
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Pros

I’m coming up on two years with the company now and I’m really thankful I work here. I had an unlucky year and ended up with back to back personal crises. No one batted an eye at my taking time away to take care of my family. I’ve worked at companies who claim they treat their employees as human beings until they actually need something and then suddenly you become very expendable. It was really lovely to see that Akamai not only says they support the staff but they back it up with action. Also, these are probably the best benefits I’ve had since I worked for a biotech company.

Cons

There aren’t many, which I don’t think I’ve ever said before about a company. If I had to pick one it’s that there’s a tendency to build tools in house instead of using a publicly available tool. I recognize that it’s because some of the projects in the company started before any of those tools ever did but it makes the onboarding process lengthy as there are a lot of tools here that don’t exist anywhere else.

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