Vantaggi
- Unlimited (or at least uncapped) vacation time - Good (but not spectacular) compensation - Tom Leighton
Svantaggi
- The company is run by the old guard, who have formed cliques and jealously guard their information. I've seen several people new to the company become completely overwhelmed and have no help whatsoever. - No documentation anywhere. - Lack of focus. It's common for projects to be pushed back, and some get ignored completely. - Most of the challenges Akamai faces now are business challenges: how to manage sustainable growth, which smaller companies to acquire, and so on. There aren't as many genuinely technical challenges as there are at other companies. - The people there are in it for the stock, not because of the engineering challenges. - Very few promotion opportunities. - Endless office politics. - Very few women engineers. The ones that are there are generally in positions high enough to avoid the worst parts of the office environment. - No freebies (soda, lunch, etc.), unlike most tech companies.