Akamai Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Akamai full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good compensation, work culture, food and snacks

Cons – Work profile is not great. Employee growth is not great either

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Akamai for more than a year

Pros – Awesome people around to work with
Nice employee benefits
Flexible timings
Good technical managers

Cons – Limited scope for growth.
Frequent re-orgs hurt projects a lot.
In India, R and D doesn't happen much

Advice to Senior Management – Talent retainment over last 2 years suck... attrition has to be addressed.. Hiring campus recruits as substitutes - DUMB

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Akamai full-time for more than a year

Pros – Awesome culture, highly motivated working individuals, camaraderie and friendly management

Cons – work life balance goes for toss, odd work hours, not the usual software development environment

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Akamai

Pros – Good place to work at

Cons – Located very far and remote

Current Employee – been working at Akamai full-time for less than a year

Pros – The salary, increments and perks on offer are pretty awesome.
Exposure to new technologies is an added advantage.

Cons – The amount of flexibility required is very high, not everybody can be available in odd hours

Advice to Senior Management – With the amount of work you have, hire more employees instead of increasing load on current employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Akamai

Pros – 1. Open Culture
2. Excellent salary for sales folks.(possibly more than industry standards)
3. Growing company, in customer facing activities though.
4. Very relevant product & solutions for Internet market.
5. A few of India management members are excellent leaders like those in Engineering, ECG, India Finance & Network operations.
6. Good Company for those candidates who belong to customer facing functions.

Cons – 1. Highly political & bureaucratic environment.
2. Very less opportunities & autonomy for R&D & Product development teams.
3. Some of India Management team are really mediocre ( they lack solid functional & management knowledge) except those mentioned above. There is no single thought leader who can change the face of Company from customer servicing organization to a true technology organization in India.
4. Local HR leadership & its team is highly incompetent and do not have any leader whom we can look upto. They work like just ‘postman in recruitment process’ by emailing CV’s, no depth in their functional knowledge. Quality of business partnering in HR is always questioned.
5. No real career progression road map in the company.
6. While hiring quality has dramatically reduced over the past 2-3 years (just meeting targets of quantity of hiring), company could not retain quality employees too.
7. You need to hobnob with top management team to grow.
8. Possibly, a higher 'attrition' than industry standards, which might be for lack of proper career progression system and competitive salary across the company.

Advice to Senior Management – 1. Build capabilities of product and engineering team's so that Akamai India becomes a true technology company, not just a customer facing BPO company.
2. Build an effective and implementable career progression plan & job levelling for tenured and performing employees. Not only on paper and pep talk. But really put these to action.
3. Review HR leadership & team capabilities/skills and weed out folks who are not capable and add no value to company.
4. Be open, honest and transparent to the employee (tell the facts openly and not hiding things).
5. Implement systems to hire & retain good quality employees.
6. Recognize women leaders.
7. Please include quality leaders in India management, not just heads of different functions
8. Get rid of political environment.

Current Employee – been working at Akamai

Pros – The San Mateo Engineering center is working on the cutting edge technology. A great place to be there.

Cons – New talent is not as good as the old ones.

Current Employee – been working at Akamai

Pros – Akamai is working hard to change its game and sharpen its focus. The company has a good foundation with its technology.

Cons – Growing pains. Lot of people have been here a long time and they're in the positions of power. Company is not very disciplined in regards to planning and execution. Without normal turnover over the years, the company has been slow to evolve. Discomfort among middle managers with change is limiting company's ability to grow and change.

Advice to Senior Management – Encouraging turnover in mid- to high-level management and some of the executive team will likely accelerate positive changes.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend