Senior Management Is Out of Touch - Manager Akamai Employee Review

4.0
25 Nov 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Front-line staff and managers are professional, courteous, helpful and hardworking.

Cons

Senior management in the company (VP and higher) is focused on cost cutting without understanding what front-line teams are actually doing. They don't value nor prioritize innovation and consistently fail to inspire teams downstream. There is no apparent strategy to turn the company around other than continuing to buy companies in the Security space. What does Product Management do? What new products are they working on? How are they steering the acquisition strategy? Engineering teams don't have enough resources to maintain existing products. The frustration of senior leadership is beginning to show as they beat-up on downstream teams and pressure them to deliver more while our colleagues are disappearing from layoffs each year..

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5.0
10 Jun 2026
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Pros

Genuinely collaborative culture with talented, supportive colleagues across sales, marketing, and technical teams. * Strong work-life balance and flexibility compared to many companies in the cybersecurity industry. * Meaningful products and technology with a strong reputation in the market. * Employees are trusted to own their work without excessive micromanagement. * Good benefits and a people-first culture that generally prioritizes employee well-being.

Cons

As a large organization, decision-making can sometimes be slow and require alignment across multiple stakeholders. * Organizational changes and shifting priorities occasionally create uncertainty. * Cross-functional processes can be complex, which can impact speed of execution.

4.0
25 Jun 2026
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Pros

Good place to work and good benefits

Cons

Managers are pretty terrible, they don’t have clear goals

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