Akamai Technologies

Generous PTO. Good salary, bonus, and RSU rewards. Complex systems and real technical challenges.

Layoffs happen every year now.

Once you hit Senior II, advancement is very difficult. People who get to higher levels tend to hold on for dear life. Because they don't move on, it's harder to get promoted. The promotion process is unclear and uneven across the organization. Some teams have 30 or 40 percent Principal level titles, which seems really ridiculous.

Please make better decisions when deciding which projects to fund.

I know you think it makes people feel better when you tell us that layoffs are project-based and not performance-based, but the message that we're getting is that it doesn't matter how hard we work or how well we do our jobs.

Someone who isn't rank and file decided to fund a project that didn't make enough money, and if we are working on that project, we are the ones to lose our jobs, not the better-paid people higher up on the food chain who misread the market.