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Senior Software Development Eng In Test
Current Employee
Has worked at Akamai Technologies for 4 years
September 16, 2019
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Very good office culture, accommodating and non-threatening.

Engineering teams are given long leashes.

Lots of possible advancement for talented contributors.

Cons

Product infrastructure has large amounts of technical debt.

Very little accountability when bad decisions are made at the project level.

A free-range-parenting management style does not produce excellence.

Many processes are completely outdated.

Advice to Management

Management needs to be aggressive about picking winners and losers internally.

Mediocre products are the price you pay when no one is willing to stand up and say, "This isn't good enough, do it again but better."

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