Is Akamai a good company to work for?

Akamai has an overall rating of 4.3 out of 5, based on over 3,815 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 90% of employees would recommend working at Akamai to a friend and 74% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Akamai have been left by employees working as Intern , Solutions Architect and Senior Manager .

Does Akamai pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Akamai employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Akamai. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Akamai?

90% of Akamai employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Akamai 4.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.4 for culture and values and 4.0 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Akamai?

Software Engineer (181) , Senior Software Engineer (167) , Solutions Architect (77) , Software Engineer II (54) , Security Architect (45) , Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II (44) , Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) (42) , Solutions Engineer (38) , Technical Project Manager (37) , Technical Support Engineer (35) , Manager (34) , Technical Solutions Engineer (34) , Program Manager (32) , Director (28) , Cloud Support Engineer (25)

What are the pros of working at Akamai according to real employee reviews?

"Good work life balance for employees and leaders" ((in 474 reviews)); "Good benefits and the company gets across the message that they care about their employees." ((in 259 reviews)); "Good work culture and people" ((in 182 reviews)); "Best place and Very comfortable." ((in 114 reviews)); "2. Good management" ((in 104 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Akamai according to real employee reviews?

"I learned from the bad manager what to avoid when one day I manage people." ((in 65 reviews)); "Frequent cut backs and layoffs" ((in 36 reviews)); "quality talents have already left due to poor leadership." ((in 35 reviews)); "Middle management is lacking experience" ((in 17 reviews)); "No training provided and a lot of lies during the interview." ((in 16 reviews))

What are employees saying about Akamai layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Akamai layoffs and their outlook for job security at Akamai in 2026.

What Akamai locations have received the highest employee ratings?

Denver , San Jose , Washington , San Francisco , Reston , Atlanta , Fort Lauderdale , New York , Seattle , Dallas

Akamai reviews

4.3

90% would recommend to a friend

(3,467 total reviews)

Tom Leighton

91% approve of CEO

74% 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 3,467 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

1.0

Aug 4, 2021

Toxic environment.

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Akamai is supposedly the leader in CDN tech.

Cons

CDN tech based on physical servers and not virtual machines. Toxic environment where your code, your progresses is blocked every day. And then one day your manager will lay you off because of costs.

3.0

Sep 30, 2019

Shifting to dinosaur status

Lead software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Akamai's benefits and pay are good to great, and the work life balance is excellent. You'll have an opportunity to work with really huge datasets and the intersection between your work and your daily life will start to become apparent as you realize just how much traffic Akamai controls. It's a real opportunity to make a difference with some decent technology. There's a huge and shiny new building in Kendall Square that Akamai will be moving in to very shortly. It's very modern and cool.

Cons

The tech stack at Akamai is almost entirely proprietary. The company does let teams integrate open source and new tech as they see fit, but the process is very slow. Basic solved problems like continuous build and integration seem like unmoveable behemoths, even though they are not. Technical debt is rising and the company leadership has explicitly admitted that they are prioritizing revenue streams over any sort of technical debt reduction or mitigation. Over the past 5 years the company has gone from a fairly nimble if a bit introspective organization to a profit hungry big business. There are a few departments that seem to be guided by randomly throwing darts at a board with no thought to how it will affect other units. Communication between business units is poor to non-existent.

1.0

Aug 14, 2019

Too slow in hiring and too fast in firing

Principal engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Very open for interview Took more than 6 months to send offer

Cons

After hire realized biased behavior suddenly after 4 months Extreme nice to extreme torture overnight in 4 months Very biased and unprofessional behavior by manager who shouts and yells Fired without giving chance to prove Harassment makes one resign even then they don't leave you away from torture

Akamai Response

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Thank you for sharing this feedback. The type of behavior you describe is not aligned to Akamai values. Please reach out to employee relations or, if you prefer, you can call the Company’s toll-free hotline at (844) 459-7722 to make a report (you will have the option to make the report anonymously).

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