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      Akamai

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      Akamai reviews

      4.3

      89% would recommend to a friend

      (3,480 total reviews)
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      Tom Leighton

      91% approve of CEO

      75% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.5

      Work/Life balance

      4.4

      Culture & values

      4.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      4.0

      Career opportunities

      3.9

      Senior management

      Akamai has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 3,480 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
      3.0
      Aug 15, 2013

      Losing advantage for cloud computing oriented IT world

      Technical project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Established market presence as leading CDN vendor. Good salary package. Best place to learn about Internet world. It must be fantastic to learn how they deliver huge traffic over their infrastructure.

      Cons

      Too political corporate culture. No vision and no adaptation to cloud computing oriented IT world. No skills to develop new technology, just buy and merge companies to adapt new services. They just want to sell "simple and easy" solution, no insight for improving web performance.

      4.0
      Aug 15, 2013

      The best company I've ever worked for, period.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Hard working, smart people, willing to help in your development and career growth. Open to new ideas and suggestions.

      Cons

      Some processes have unnecessary obstacles/difficulties. May be due to being very centralized which creates a strong need to understand other regions.

      2.0
      Aug 2, 2013

      A stressful experience

      Operations team
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The main pro is that the company pays well and you are likely to work with very intelligent people. You will learn new skills while you're there.

      Cons

      The company is having growing pains. Most of the people there are the ones that held on through the dotcom burst. While that makes them very engaged in the success of the company it also make it very clicky... and tough to be a new person. For at tech company they're surprisingly uptight and have a generally tough culture.

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