Akamai Technologies

Depending on your manager, telecommuting can be encouraged or frowned upon.

Most people only keep to themselves. You never know when or who will stab you from behind, even just when you think everything is going alright. A lot of managers are extremely short-sighted. They bend forward and take every requirement from the Product team and turn them into a CR (change request, just like a bug) without even considering the overall impact to the system and pushing back when necessary. I guess that the manager's performance is evaluated by the number of CRs they close. That's why they want to open and close as many as possible.

There is hardly any chance for advancement. Unless you're one of the boss's pets, you're pretty much stuck in the same position for many years until either your boss moves up or you can't take it and get moving yourself.

Advice for potential employees:

• Work hard to get the level as high as possible since it will be very hard to move up once you join.

Do an overall audit of the first-line managers.

Interview employees and understand if there are any unpleasant issues with the same boss.

When you get consistent answers, you know who the weeds are.