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      Akamai

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      Akamai reviews

      4.3

      90% would recommend to a friend

      (3,467 total reviews)
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      Tom Leighton

      91% approve of CEO

      74% positive business outlook

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      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 3,467 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
      5.0
      Oct 20, 2011

      A great place to work with lots of challenges

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Excellent people to work with and lot of challenging work. Good work/life balance. Lots of opportunities to move between teams.

      Cons

      Some times company direction could be difficult to tell. Acquisitions are not well integrated into the company all the times. East coast/west coast offices could pose challenges.

      4.0
      Sep 16, 2011

      Large, stable, exciting company, maybe stodgy

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      The work you do affects virtually every important company that has a website, every single day. The company's foundations -- financially and technically -- have been laid down very well. There's little doubt that the company will continue being at the forefront of the CDN industry for years. The benefits are terrific. The company skimps on everyday perks (e.g., providing lunch during meetings), but in exchange they focus on providing solid bonuses at the end of the year and providing solid base salary. The company was the dot-com bubble's poster child (check out their stock history), which came crashing down very quickly, and they had to lay people off a decade or so ago. Consequently, they've been very conservative in the years since. I'd be surprised if they'd ever lay anyone off again, short of a disaster. In an economy with companies that don't hesitate to dump their employees, that's worth a lot.

      Cons

      It's kind of slow and stodgy. Management has recently been making a lot of noise about 'innovation,' less because they seem to know what that means in this company's context and more because that's a word that everyone uses. The real innovators in the industry -- the Googles, the Facebooks -- are leaving Akamai in the dust. Akamai doesn't even really register on the map for people coming out of college with CS degrees. Akamai should be a company that keeps people in Cambridge, but it's not. I doubt many of the top candidates from MIT and Stanford and CMU have ever decided to come to Cambridge because Akamai offered them a job.

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