Excellent Culture and Work Life Balance - Senior Systems Software Engineer Akamai Employee Review

5.0
Mar 23, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Respect, acknowledgement of effort, fairness, compensation, personal development opportunities, benefits, people, culture, work load, access to resources

Cons

Metadata. Non-cloud based in a world of cloud computing. Limited test servers. Shared QA environment for testing with global access for all users (outages, instability of test env, resource consumption and overload)

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

Genuinely collaborative culture with talented, supportive colleagues across sales, marketing, and technical teams. * Strong work-life balance and flexibility compared to many companies in the cybersecurity industry. * Meaningful products and technology with a strong reputation in the market. * Employees are trusted to own their work without excessive micromanagement. * Good benefits and a people-first culture that generally prioritizes employee well-being.

Cons

As a large organization, decision-making can sometimes be slow and require alignment across multiple stakeholders. * Organizational changes and shifting priorities occasionally create uncertainty. * Cross-functional processes can be complex, which can impact speed of execution.

4.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

Good place to work and good benefits

Cons

Managers are pretty terrible, they don’t have clear goals

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