Senior Software Engineer in Customer Web Portal - Senior Software Engineer Akamai Employee Review

4.0
Dec 15, 2015
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Pros

Interesting technical challenges, opportunities to work in different teams and locations, great benefits, smart people. It can be thrilling to work on technology used by many so many businesses, especially large companies. The work environment is very supportive and inclusive.

Cons

The development/QA environment for the customer portal can be frustrating to work b/c of issues in shared databases and systems. Plans to streamline and modernize the web app development / dev ops environment are laudable, yet slow-going. There is a lot of tech debt including applications with poor documentation and without unit tests. Career advancement for software engineers is hard to predict or understand. There are also not enough senior front-end developers, so the user interfaces are often created by folks without enough expertise to do it well. Also, technical interviews are not well organized, in my opinion.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

Genuinely collaborative culture with talented, supportive colleagues across sales, marketing, and technical teams. * Strong work-life balance and flexibility compared to many companies in the cybersecurity industry. * Meaningful products and technology with a strong reputation in the market. * Employees are trusted to own their work without excessive micromanagement. * Good benefits and a people-first culture that generally prioritizes employee well-being.

Cons

As a large organization, decision-making can sometimes be slow and require alignment across multiple stakeholders. * Organizational changes and shifting priorities occasionally create uncertainty. * Cross-functional processes can be complex, which can impact speed of execution.

4.0
Jul 9, 2026
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Pros

It was great and my manager and mentor was great

Cons

Wasn't given the greatest project but I learned a lot

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