Akamai reviews

- Pay is FAR lower than market. They basically pretended 9% inflation/COLA never happened. - Incredibly toxic culture of backstabbing and a never-ending fight for control. If your project isn't complete in six months (which is impossible), management's ADD will kick in and they'll re-org it away. - Their core products are dying or already dead. They keep trying to reboot the company in new directions but the ossified toxic culture makes it impossible. - They've had shadow layoffs for years, where they close many backfills for people that have left. That means the good people all left years ago and only the fifth-stringers are left. - LEGACY CODE EVERYWHERE! The chances you'll work with a normal build system, ANY modern tooling or on modern projects is next to zero. If my some miracle you do, you'll be constantly backstabbed so someone else can take the glory. - Your standard woke corporate monoculture. Virtue signaling is their main product. Expect no diversity of opinion. - Management is out to lunch, perpetually. The level of cash-the-check pass-the-buck is off the charts for a non-governmental organization.

Your work will never see the light of day. Akamai started as a web caching service and pretty much stopped there. They have gone on to buy other little companies to acquire new technology and ... don't seem to do anything with it. Akamai has annual layoffs where folks that are not politically aligned get axed regardless of their contribution or technical importance. Honestly though, Akamai needs to lay off a LOT more people. Because Akamai doesn't really develop any new technology, they really don't need all of those engineers and developers. Seriously, Akamai could be 1/10th its current size and still be just as "productive". The liberal work from home policy is nice, but it also has a down side. My manager lived in another state. His manager lived in another country. Our BU was run by another guy in another country. Nothing seems to get done. My team produced lots of great work but there was nobody to hand it off to -- even the teams that requested the systems in the first place. Nobody is in charge. Nothing seems to go anywhere. There is no direction.