Shoot from the hip, cowboy town - Anonymous employee Akamai Employee Review

1.0
12 Dec 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great opportunity to lead up into politics & run for office. To succeed, one would have to manipulate & maneuver across & over each other's body in the team or over cross functions. Similar to being successful in a political office, one has to integrate & follow blindly/obediently into the special boys&girls club, anyone who speaks up or acts contrary to the norm will not be tolerated & will be eradicated & exterminated. Great opportunity to mess up your professional career, contacts & personal life. Stay away from this organization by all means necessary!

Cons

If your life has no purpose then sell your souls to this organization as they sure will run you into the ground/central atrosphere with not even a faint whiff of gratitude/genuine appreciation of the time & energy one spends away from family & loved ones. Ultimately this is a internet company & it's workers are treated like machines/computers & are expected to move along the production line quietly with not even hint of objection. One more thing, when they are done with you even if you have not reached your full potential they'll kick you out even if you are the General Manager or non executive.

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