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      Akamai

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      Akamai reviews

      4.3

      90% would recommend to a friend

      (3,472 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 3,472 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
      Mar 8, 2016

      Code base was a train wreck

      Software engineer i
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good benefits if you want to be comfortable.

      Cons

      Their Objective-C code looks like it could have been used as examples for bad code in the book "Clean Code." Saw many classes with more than thousands of lines. One class was approaching 4000 lines. Saw several classes in one file. It was a waste of time to read, debug, understand, or refactor.

      2.0
      Jul 22, 2015

      Great pay and benefits but infrastructure lacking

      Senior analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great pay and benefits, charismatic CEO who is very much in the details, company makes great efforts to try and retain the start-up feel

      Cons

      Systems are woefully lacking, many managers are new to managing and micromanage to death, no investment in upkeep of employees' skills, some groups work really long hours for lack of systems and hierarchies

      2.0
      Mar 2, 2014

      Lost its greatness?

      Engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Used to have very competitive and smart people.

      Cons

      Unfortunately almost all the smart folks have left for better opportunities. This place now is run by managers who don't understand technology - worst they don't care about technology. More that half the effort is now expended to keep things running (vs. building new things). If you are planning to be a manager, do it by all means. If you plan to be a developer, you've been warned.

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