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      Akamai

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      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

      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 3,467 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 31, 2018

      Employee

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Benefits Unlimited PTO (thank you) Location

      Cons

      HR will ignore complaints and will not investigate Elliott Management scares executive team, so company is reactive/not strategic about hiring, and long-term goals. Only concerned about numbers looking good for the market Employee morale is very low Most of Management comes from Commerce Team (old boy network). So if Commerce is hiring, go there. People who have done well stay there forever and protect one another Expensive solutions for mid-market There always seems to be reorganization every 1st quarter No transparency or trust, teams will sabotage each other. Success is dependent on your manager/politics not on your results

      2.0
      Dec 3, 2014

      Top down culture run by bureaucrats,well supported by HR.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good viable business. Good developers and testers mostly. Very smart, interesting personalities. The CEO is likable and smart , but his blog "ask Tom" is written and signed by HR.

      Cons

      Culture of extreme fear, fed by many very quiet people on H1 visas.. People run away from you as soon as they sense any trouble. Run by the incompetent old timers with the great social skills, who would turn your every word against you. The ability to do the job does not count at all. HR refuses to look at that. Developers discuss technical details behind the closed doors, so to avoid disappointing those sharks with too much knowledge. Groups are isolated and only communicate to each other after the manager's approval. Six levels of hierarchy between a developer and the CEO.

      2.0
      Oct 18, 2018

      Akamai is like the Borg

      Systems engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Respectable pay, bonuses are good, lunch once a week is provided.

      Cons

      Since Prolexic got bought out by Akamai, they did exactly what I expected... laid people off. They have a liberal vacation policy, and because of that, my manager took more than 170 days off in the last year I was there. He was useless, unhelpful, and derelict so bad... that I got laid off. This was my second experience with this company. They did the same thing to InterVu back in 1999.

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