Akamai Technologies

Good wages. Don't have to work very hard. In fact, they don't work very hard; they're not interested. Actually, some of the biggest names in the tech biz worked there, getting the heck out as fast as they could.

What a sad, sad place. Full of people who have given up and are just pulling down a paycheck by scrupulously following arbitrary office rules. All baby pictures on cubicle walls must contain at least one rubber duck.

Of course there are exceptions, but this appears to be more of the rule.

Any company that still heavily boasts of inventing the consistent hash has some serious laurel sitting going on: "Oh yeah? Well, we invented TURNIPS! Take that, Mister you-and-your-cool-social-app guy! How do ya like THOSE … umm … turnips?"

In short, a has-been place for those not going anywhere in a hurry.

A patent troll is the consistent hash for everything you've got.