Akamai Technologies

Smart and intelligent people. I cannot stress this enough; I'm amazed at how much you can learn every day.

Great technologies and industry exposure.

Complete independence and ownership of work.

India is still primarily looked at as a center to get work done at a low cost to the company, and not as a center of excellence, though there are a lot of brilliant individuals here, equally good as their foreign counterparts.

India HR policies and the rest of the world policies are very different. An attempt to highlight this is always greeted with the standard response of, "India policy is in line with present industry standards in India."

Very low visibility, at least as part of the Professional Services team at Bangalore. Hardly any rewards and recognition compared to the rest of the world.

Primarily a sales-driven organization. If you want to make a lot of money and get frequent rewards, you have to be in sales.

Getting a promotion might not always be about your work. Sometimes you need to have a good relationship with the right people.

1. Akamai is now a global company. Act like one with internal stakeholders as well; the world does not revolve around North America!

2. Sales is just another organization within the company. Agree sales gets the revenue in, but every other organization is just as equal a contributor to Akamai's success.

3. India management really needs a change of guard, a strong charismatic, visionary leadership.