Is Akamai a good company to work for as a Software Engineer?

Software Engineer professionals working at Akamai have rated their employer with 4.4 out of 5 stars in 186 Glassdoor reviews. This is a higher than average score with the overall rating of Akamai employees being 4.3 out of 5 stars. Search open Software Engineer Jobs at Akamai now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Software Engineer interview questions at Akamai .

Does Akamai pay Software Engineer employees well?

Software Engineer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Akamai with 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 186 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 11.8% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Software Engineer salaries at Akamai.

What Akamai locations are top rated by Software Engineer employees?

Cambridge is the top rated Akamai location by Software Engineer employees.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Akamai?

Software Engineer (182) , Senior Software Engineer (167) , Solutions Architect (77) , Software Engineer II (54) , Security Architect (45) , Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II (44) , Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) (42) , Solutions Engineer (38) , Technical Project Manager (37) , Technical Support Engineer (35) , Manager (34) , Technical Solutions Engineer (34) , Program Manager (32) , Director (28) , Cloud Support Engineer (26)

What are the pros of working at Akamai according to real employee reviews?

"Good Work life balance and permanent work from home" ((in 457 reviews)); "Good benefits and the company gets across the message that they care about their employees." ((in 252 reviews)); "Great work culture and people" ((in 188 reviews)); "Good pay and stock options" ((in 143 reviews)); "Best place and Very comfortable." ((in 115 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Akamai according to real employee reviews?

"I learned from the bad manager what to avoid when one day I manage people." ((in 62 reviews)); "quality talents have already left due to poor leadership." ((in 34 reviews)); "Frequent cut backs and layoffs" ((in 30 reviews)); "Middle management is lacking experience" ((in 16 reviews)); "No training provided and a lot of lies during the interview." ((in 14 reviews))

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4.4

99% would recommend to a friend

(186 total reviews)

Tom Leighton

99% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

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4.7

Diversity & inclusion

4.7

Work/Life balance

4.6

Culture & values

4.5

Compensation and benefits

4.4

Senior management

4.4

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Software Engineer || employees have rated Akamai with 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 186 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer || professionals have an excellent working experience there. Akamai is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer || professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0

Mar 8, 2016

Code base was a train wreck

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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.

4.0

Nov 1, 2015

Good company

Software engineer

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The entire working environment is relaxing. You can have relatively more time off chance.

Cons

Fine compensation. Development environment is not quite up-to-date.

5.0

Aug 15, 2015

Awesome company!

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Pros

Great company overall! The CEO truly cares about making the company great and makes himself very visible and has very good demeanor. Benefits are outstanding. People who have worked there long try to make it great as well. You will quickly find that everyone knows what they're talking about from the SVP to the director and most managers. Those people have been around and were engineers themselves. We're definitely at the forefront of the internet and try to make it fast and secure.

Cons

Politics is quickly rearing its ugly head as they hire managers who come from outside. They are usually unproven and insecure about their roles and try to dictate things they don't quite know well. I have seen a couple great engineers leave because they don't get along with them and I think I might be in this situation soon. If you do your job too well, they may start to think you're trying to outshine them so the best thing to do is leave. Fortunately, I think movement between departments might be an option.

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