Akamai reviews

Senior leadership is failing spectacularly. Executives have been attempting to pivot Akamai's business model; not only have they been failing, but they have been punishing employees along the way. Cash bonuses were eliminated and changed to stock-based, and all executive decisions have crashed the stock price - significantly slashing bonuses. On top of that, the C-suite is basically eliminating merit increases under the guise of 'investing in the company'. Unfortunately, they don't realize the company is the people, and all these short-sighted decisions are causing long-term damage.

Senior management in the company (VP and higher) is focused on cost cutting without understanding what front-line teams are actually doing. They don't value nor prioritize innovation and consistently fail to inspire teams downstream. There is no apparent strategy to turn the company around other than continuing to buy companies in the Security space. What does Product Management do? What new products are they working on? How are they steering the acquisition strategy? Engineering teams don't have enough resources to maintain existing products. The frustration of senior leadership is beginning to show as they beat-up on downstream teams and pressure them to deliver more while our colleagues are disappearing from layoffs each year..