Akamai Technologies

Competitive benefits, lots of interesting technical challenges, and work due to growth. Management seems to have the company pointed in the right direction in terms of growing into adjacent and new areas to fight commoditization of the traditional CDN business.

Growth has HQ sprawling all over Kendall Square, scattered among many buildings. Lots of legacy code and "not invented here" syndrome over the 15+ years means mucking through tons of hidebound code, tools, processes, etc. There is definitely a fear of cutting over or "letting go", since the lack of available information and oral history makes it difficult to know what can be discarded and what must be retained.

Put some of the gentlemen farmer "architects" scattered at personal labs around the country back to work on these problems, instead of their advanced research/dev sinecures.