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

Software Engineer II professionals working at Akamai have rated their employer with 4.6 out of 5 stars in 56 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 II Jobs at Akamai now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Software Engineer II interview questions at Akamai .

Does Akamai pay Software Engineer II employees well?

Software Engineer II professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Akamai with 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 56 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 9.5% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Software Engineer II salaries at Akamai.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Akamai?

Software Engineer (182) , Senior Software Engineer (168) , Solutions Architect (77) , Software Engineer II (54) , Security Architect (46) , Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II (44) , Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) (43) , Solutions Engineer (38) , Technical Project Manager (37) , Technical Support Engineer (36) , 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 for employees and leaders" ((in 472 reviews)); "Good benefits and the company gets across the message that they care about their employees." ((in 261 reviews)); "Great work culture and people" ((in 194 reviews)); "Best place and Very comfortable." ((in 115 reviews)); "2. Good management" ((in 105 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 66 reviews)); "Frequent cut backs and layoffs" ((in 32 reviews)); "Middle management is lacking experience" ((in 18 reviews)); "Upper management and leadership are largely directionless and uncommunicative." ((in 13 reviews)); "HR is highly incapable of doing anything, they openly support harassment of employees" ((in 6 reviews))

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Akamai Software Engineer II reviews

Item: Akamai
Rating: 5
Author: Current employee - Software Engineer II

4.6

99% would recommend to a friend

(56 total reviews)

Tom Leighton

99% approve of CEO

96% positive business outlook

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4.9

Culture & values

4.9

Diversity & inclusion

4.8

Work/Life balance

4.8

Senior management

4.4

Compensation and benefits

4.0

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Software Engineer II employees have rated Akamai with 4.6 out of 5 stars, based on 56 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer II professionals have an excellent working experience there. Akamai is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer II professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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56 reviews

1.0

May 26, 2016

Zero learning in enterprise teams

Software engineer ii

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Fun people to work with, chilled out environment.

Cons

Be very careful about the type of work you are signing up for. They hire people as Software Engineers and then put them to configure Salesforce, CastIron, Mulesoft.

5.0

Aug 9, 2015

Software Engineer II

Software engineer ii

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Very friendly,smart and intelligent people to work with, good pay and perks and lots of other benefits like work from home, snacks, stocks etc.

Cons

Nothing i can remember. Akamai gives the best to their employees and expect the same from them, so if you think you can give you best then i guess you will not find any cons.

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