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      Akamai

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      Akamai reviews

      4.3

      90% would recommend to a friend

      (3,471 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 3,471 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
      Nov 14, 2016

      The Irony of Akamai's faster forward slogan

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great health insurance and benefits, work life balance is awesome

      Cons

      Slow moving, not innovative, siloed communication, pay is poor and not competative, way too many managers not enough engineers. Management can get paid up to double what the actual engineers get paid. Middle management is way too convoluted and communication is poor. No interdepartmental collaboration. No plans for innovation. CEO is weak and lacks vision.

      2.0
      Dec 11, 2014

      Akamai used to be a great place to work but not anymore!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Big company benefits - good health care, Discounted Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), 401k. Good place to gain broad technology skills (CDN, internet, security, performance, FEO)

      Cons

      Extremely political culture, too many layers of management, poor career advancement opportunities, everyone overworked, no vacation policy (elective)

      2.0
      Nov 11, 2014

      Work life balance is a joke, Politics, Too Slow to Innovate,

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Middle management is political ( if you like that sort of thing) , Established company

      Cons

      They have a highly political middle management especially in the media division. Innovation is missing and company is riding wave of increased video traffic on internet. Upper management is entrenched in slow decision making process and is passive about any major changes in organization to shake up things. To get something up and running takes months. To rollout products takes years. They have highly distributed infrastructure which is closer to end users but also limits rapid deployment and limits rolling out new business like cloud services much slowly.

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