Pros: Good Management Flexible in giving leaves. Work-life balance. Engineers enjoy watching/monitoring many live major events/shows/games, like GOT, IPL, NBA, NFL. You will get the opportunity to work with many big online live video provider companies. Compensation is fairly good.

Cons: Once you understand the technology, things will become boring. Not much work to do, engineers fight with each other like hungry dogs for food. Few engineers will share everything with managers; they will even share when they go to the washroom. Biased managers keep a few chosen engineers at arm's length. Every team has a chosen engineer favored for everything. Management gives preference to a few engineers who bootlick. Two-faced managers. That most favorite engineer will carry out most of the work and get credit for it. The manager will give work to his favorite engineer and make others believe that the chosen one is the hardest-working engineer in the whole team. Engineers who keep a smiling, innocent face in front of the manager and spend hours talking with them get the most favored engineer tag. Those innocent-faced engineers show their true face to other engineers when managers are not around. Best shift to work is the weekend shift. You do 12 hours of work for 3 days and enjoy 4 days of the week off! Lots of internal team politics. Engineers will keep a smiling, innocent face in front of you, who you believe are friends, but will backstab. They will complain a lot about you to your managers. Managers enjoy listening to the gossip and start believing the rumors. The whole management team is built with a motto: let engineers wipe their mess and award the one who wipes really well or even eats their mess really well. Each team thinks they are supreme to others, which leads to a lot of team-specific escalations to each other. One short advice is not to join this team, as this team looks shittiest in Akamai. Don't join if you are looking for a good technical role and career growth. You will be stuck in a loop you will not be able to break. Akamai as a whole is a really good company, but not BOCC.

Pros: Engineering-driven culture at the bottom level. Great technical teams and a lot of strong talent to work with.

Cons: Lack of a strong central vision makes products poor in consistency. Not a culture designed around providing a first-class customer experience. Upper management varies a lot in terms of culture, both good and bad.

Pros: Akamai values collaboration and education.

Cons: Like any other big company, it's a slow process to request something from another department.