Senior Software Engineer in Customer Web Portal - Senior Software Engineer Akamai Employee Review

4.0
Dec 15, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting technical challenges, opportunities to work in different teams and locations, great benefits, smart people. It can be thrilling to work on technology used by many so many businesses, especially large companies. The work environment is very supportive and inclusive.

Cons

The development/QA environment for the customer portal can be frustrating to work b/c of issues in shared databases and systems. Plans to streamline and modernize the web app development / dev ops environment are laudable, yet slow-going. There is a lot of tech debt including applications with poor documentation and without unit tests. Career advancement for software engineers is hard to predict or understand. There are also not enough senior front-end developers, so the user interfaces are often created by folks without enough expertise to do it well. Also, technical interviews are not well organized, in my opinion.

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5.0
Jul 10, 2026
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Pros

Work Life Balance Rewarding Work and Responsibilities Quality Benefits Stock Options & Compensation are competitive Continuing Education Reimbursement Diversity of the community

Cons

Akamai is still learning to grow into the enterprise-level organization it strives to be. There are no major cons to share in effort to discourage someone from applying, but like most jobs, few are perfect.

5.0
Jul 10, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Great work life balance - Great work culture - Ability to work on projects you are interested in

Cons

- Slow work, conservative management - Pay is lower than similar level tech companies

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