Akamai
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Akamai currently holds a 3.8 Blind rating from 362 reviews. Core product: Imported from companies. Strongest marks: work-life balance and culture. Recent pulse: 4.1 from 7 reviews in the last 60 days.
- Overall
- 1.59 Amazons
- Recent 60d (7)
- 2.80 Amazons
- Perception
- 0.35 Amazons
- Recent delta
- +1.21 Amazons
- Perception delta
- -1.24 Amazons
- Reviews
- 362
- Perception votes
- 16
- Last updated
- May 30, 2026
- Status
- Unknown
Distribution
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Score
1.59 Amazons
Percentile
79th
Companies
221
Peak bin
39
Metric breakdown
Overall rating
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Recent 60 days
Average across reviews from the last 60 days, using up to 10 of the latest stored review cards.
Career growth
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Compensation / Benefits
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Management
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Work life balance
The balance score used when sorting for sustainability.
Company culture
How employees rate the day-to-day environment and team culture.
Public perception
Elo score
592
Confidence band
+- 114
Public record
4W / 12L
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Latest review list
7 reviews from the last 60 days
1. May 27, 2026
Good overall
4.0Current Employee / Senior Technical Program Manager
Pros: Remote work Integration activities Stock plan Friendly people Supportive team mates
Cons: Management neglects faulty processes Salary A lot of overtime. No work life balance
2. May 27, 2026
Good wlb
3.0Current Employee / Software Developer II
Pros: Good work life balance , decent benefits like wellness holidays
Cons: Everything other than work life balance is bad. Bad compensation
3. May 17, 2026
Great Company to work for especially in India
5.0Former Employee / Security Engineer II
Pros: - Great Culture and WLB - Decent Pay but not exceptional like FAANG - Less politics and more emphasis on individual values - Security products are highly valued outside - Full WFH - Good company policy to switch between team if one has r...
Cons: - Even-though Layoffs are less it is increasing recently, however it is still at minimum level and customer facing teams are mostly not affected. - Try little harder to retain tenured employees, as they possess much knowledge about platf...
4. May 11, 2026
Great company.
5.0Current Employee / Sales Representative
Pros: People, pay and flexibility. Great customers. Work from home. Career growth.
Cons: None that I can think of. All good here. Love it
5. May 8, 2026
Great culture and wlb
5.0Current Employee / Senior DevOps Engineer
Pros: Great company and culture and best in security and work wise also
Cons: Sometime over work but manageable so dont worry before joining
6. April 16, 2026
Great work life balance, dinosaur leadership running company into ground
3.0Current Employee / Site Reliability Engineer
Pros: The work life balance at akamai is phenomenal. I know people drag unlimited PTO but from experiencing both sides working for a company that gives you "unlimited" and actually encourages you to use the pto is great. Akamai is also full of...
Cons: $6e
7. April 16, 2026
Great work life balance compensation it’s avg
4.0Current Employee / Software Engineer
Pros: Work life balance it’s good depending on the team you are Culture it’s not toxic
Cons: Compensation it’s average vesting not happening that frequent which makes them less attractive against competitors