Pros: Akamai values and respects diversity.

Cons: Akamai has complex development tooling and build environments.

Pros: * Good WLB * Good people * Decent pay

Cons: The company has shifted its focus from growth to profitability and has become extremely cheap. They are cutting back on everything: * Employee events * Travel * Hiring * Bonuses * Stock refreshes They even cut back on the candy delivery to our floor. Cheap Hershey's Kisses candies are the only form of free snack the company provides. The company has decided to delay annual raises by six months to save a few pennies, and this has happened multiple times. A massive offshoring to low-wage countries, especially in engineering, is occurring. You will be left wondering why they even bother paying you to sit in a high-wage country. You will see your colleagues leave, and management will replace the headcount by hiring two engineers in a low-wage country such as Poland. Extremely dated technology is in use. The general feeling is that the company is slowing down and stagnating in a major way.

Pros: Interesting technical challenges, opportunities to work in different teams and locations, great benefits, and smart people. It can be thrilling to work on technology used by 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 because 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. In my opinion, technical interviews are not well organized.