Pros
Good Management Flexible in giving leaves Work life balance Engineers Enjoy watching/monitoring many live major events/show/games like GOT, IPL, NBA, NFL You will get opportunity to work with many big online live video provider companies Compensation is fairly good
Cons
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.