Akamai reviews

4.3

90% would recommend to a friend

(3,467 total reviews)
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Tom Leighton

91% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

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
Oct 26, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Dominant position in the CDN market. Stable company.

Cons

Selfish management culture, I have not seen good managers of any level many years in this company. They all seem to be similar in style: first priority is their job security and career ladder, last thing on their mind is their employees and company long term health and development. All these kinds of management culture even made engineers working in the similar selfish style. in the end, team work, enthusiasm, innovation and collaboration cross departments are getting less and less over the years. Company will suffer in the end. Job pay level including bonus and stock is on the cheap side, i.e. low end of Silicon Valley range. Besides, company gears up more to hire H1 visa cheap labor, to relieve its non-competitiveness in retaining good employees. Some HR managers are not fair to employees either. They work from headquarters in Boston. Know very little about Silicon Valley open culture and employee concerns. When employee reports issues about their managers to HR, they feel like colluding with the manager to defeat the employee, rather than addressing employees concern and solving problems of the bad manager and management culture. All these culture things make me think never recommend someone to work for a company headquartered in East coast.

1.0
Apr 20, 2018

Not as good as you think

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-new sales director appears to be change agent -new fitness reimbursement program

Cons

-very high turn-over rate in Marketing and Sales -highly political culture -nearly impossible to get promoted -departments don't communicate well -low morale in Marketing due to toxic leadership -new hires are not as experienced or skilled as the people who left -brain drain in last year and half -outdated technology -antiquated gym equipment -filthy showers -bad employees are impossible to get rid of -polarizing managers -recent acquisitions are not panning out -poor returns on the huge investment made in demand generation -substandard integration team from CR -smaller competitors are winning business away at an alarming rate -new snack shack vendor is awful unless you like trans fat and sugary drinks

3.0
Apr 16, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great compensation and benefits, good people, generally caring company that tries to do well by its employees

Cons

Lately, lots of politics blocking progress in several areas. Turf wars. The recent reorganization resulted in about a 4% layoff... but they treated those people very well. Worse off are some of us left behind, and I was a lucky one. I was effectively demoted without cause, despite consistently very good reviews. The rising tide of the reorg floated some boats but sank far more others than it should have; many folks were pulled off of leadership and management tracks for no good reason; some people were put on PIPs for poor reasons, effectively managing them out without severance or the good treatment for those who were laid off. This has been very disappointing treatment of people who have been seen as valuable (but perhaps expensive) employees. A lot of very good people are leaving. I’m sure things will shake out and they will do well and be a great employee again, but this was a very disappointing end game for many of us. And it WILL be the end game.

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