Akamai reviews

- The biggest challenge here is shift. Almost everyone in India works in shifts of 11-8, 2-10 or even overnight. They term it "flexible" but you struggle to find people when you need their help urgently. Specially because there is too much of dependency on other teams. - Managers will allow you to logout early and connect from home for calls. But the calls are all accommodated to American convenience and indians are expected to give up their night time for all the "not so useful but mandatory" calls everyday including Friday. And this is worse because the US office also has lot of Indians who suddenly think they have a privilege for being in US. - Lot of weekend support work for developers but no paid compensation. - Management is extremely authoritative and there is no open communication unlike other product companies. One is in constant threat of being fired when they are not in manager's good books. There is too much of politics to the point of taking you to complete burnout. - Their work culture is quite ancient and they are rarely open to new ideas or approaches to do things. There is no team work, it is all IC roles. No technical lead to guide and no one cares about quality of code or work as long as it works. Too many messy manual steps which they are not ready to automate. - As a developer, you won't grow or improve because expectations from you is to just get things working or maintain them with no discussions, reviews or improvisation. - The recruiters also do a pathetic job of matching you to unsuitable roles. All in all, it has highly unhealthy work environment and culture would not recommend anyone to Akamai Bangalore.

Once you understand the technology, things will become boring. Not much work to do, engineers fight with each other like Hungary dogs for the food. Few engineers will share each and everything with managers, they will even share when they go for washroom. (can't write the rude language, I had a different version to write though) Biased managers who keep a few chosen engineers at their arm's length. Every team has a chosen engineer favoured for everything. Management gives preference to a few engineers who does bootlick. Two-faced managers. That most favourite engineer will carry out most of the work and will get credit for it. Manager will give work to his favourite engineer and makes others believe that the chosen one is the hard-working engineer in the whole team. Engineers who keep a smiling innocent face in front of the manager and spend hours of talking with them gets the most favoured engineer tag. Those innocent face making engineers show true face to other engineers when managers are not around. Best shift to work is weekend shift. you do 12 hours of work for 3 days and enjoy 4 days of the week off!!! Lots of internal team politics. Engineers will keep a smiling innocent face in front of you who you believe are friends but will do backstabbing, they will complain a lot about you to your managers. Managers enjoy listening to the gossips and they start believing the rumours. The whole management team is built with a motto of let engineers wipe their mess and award the one who wipes really good or even eat their mess really good. Each team will think that they are supreme to others that leads to lot of team-specific escalation to each other. One short advice is to not to join this team as this team looks shittiest in Akamai. Don't join if you are looking for good technical role and career growth. You will be stuck in a loop you will not be able to break it. Akamai as a whole is a really good company but not BOCC.