No accountability & too much middle management - Anonymous employee Akamai Employee Review

For a technology company, there's a huge shortage of good engineers, with knowledge of new frameworks. Everything gets built on top of old code that's clunky and difficult to QA. Many releases have to get rolled back because they cause customer issues or simply don't work! It takes a painfully long time to get new features out, many times years... and by the time something is released, there are multiple competitors doing the same thing much better and for lower price! Finally, certain teams/industries get all the attention of product and engineering and everything gets built with them in mind. The rest of the customer base is left with having to shoehorn Akamai products into their workflow. As a company, there's a huge middle management layer that's ineffective and adds to employee frustration. These are managers who play politics, don't care about helping their direct reports advance their careers, and are simply dead weight. This adds to the work/life imbalance for high throughput employees and lets those doing bare minimum fly under the radar (and many times, get promoted!).