Akamai Technologies

Fully stocked pantry.

Decent perks like transport and allowances, etc.

Good induction program.

Good upper management.

Bad Recruiting HR. Average salary. Below average if you consider companies in the league of Akamai. HR is mostly unresponsive/unreachable. Managers are just that – managers, not leaders. CIO organization has no technical work, only repetitive work on customized products. As a techie, definitely not a place to be if you are from a product company and want to stay long-term. A matured company behaving like a startup and ending up being neither mature nor a startup.

I was promised a different profile when recruited and was expected to work on entirely different things after I joined. Speaking to the manager was of no help. I have had very good feedback of Akamai, but maybe it is limited to different departments in this organization. Mostly CRMs are customized in Enterprise Business Applications group, and for a techie who has worked on a full lifecycle of a product, this work is hardly exciting or stimulating.

There is a lot of slip between the lip and the cup. Akamai is a dream organization for many.

Upper management and the Admin department are outstanding, but please understand people will not stay in an organization for free snacks and juices. Definitely, there is a problem with middle management, who are aware of problems but still tend to ignore things.

Give technical work to employees, or at least, in the interview process, don't look for skills that are not needed by the employee at work. Be more precise and straightforward while conducting interviews and setting the expectations of new joiners.