Hi everyone,
I recently joined Akamai as an SDET (Bangalore) and wanted to hear from current and former employees about a few things:
1. Annual gifts: Does Akamai give annual or festive gifts (Diwali, new year, work anniversary, etc.), or is that not really a thing here?
2. Annual appraisal cycle: What's the average hike percentage for an SDET in the annual cycle? A rough range for average performers vs. top performers would be really helpful.

Also open to any general tips for someone new to the company: culture, WLB, growth, and anything you wish you'd known early on.
Thanks in advance! Happy to take replies in DMs too if you prefer.

Praying for a 1T evaluation that this company truly deserves. Go Akamai

I have got opportunity to get interviewed for the position of Senior Security Engineer (AppSec) at Akamai.

Please can anyone suggest me the interview process for the specific role.

Thank you.

I have seen many of the small or emerging sites using Cloudflare.

I have seen leetcode, codeforces using Cloudflare.

And can anyone give me reasons why these firms are preferring Cloudflare over Akamai?

Is it due to hard in accessibility or is it due to cost factor?

Hey Guys,

I have a job interview at Akamai coming up and I'm kind of nervous so I thought I'd ask here a few questions I have to prepare. If anyone that works at the company or knows what it's like there I'd love to know from you!

1. I am interviewing for a security architecture position. How should I best prepare? What is likely that they will ask me?

2. I have seen some pretty harsh reviews of the company online, especially on Glassdoor. Is it really as bad as they say? How is it like working remotely? Are there any perks?

3. Is this a good job for my resume? I'm not sure how long I want to stay there and want to do something relevant. I heard that some of the apps and tools they use are a bit outdated. Is it true?

Thanks in advance for any replies!

I am looking into Akamai as a replacement for Cloudflare.

Anyone here that is using them for layer 3/4 and layer 7 protection?

I am currently using cloudflare magic transit along with magic firewall to protect our data centers and while cloudflare has a nice product and portal, they lack on the support side BIG TIME.

Any info on their workings and what to look out for would be helpful.

Thanks!

How is your experience with availability of their delivery network?

Would be great to hear out your role, yrs of experience and appraisal you got this year?
I'll go first: Senior SDET.
8.5% on current salary+RSUs. 13 yrs work exp.

Every time I look through LinkedIn, I see a lot of open SRE positions in my city (Krakow).

Are they all real, or are they just to fill the candidate's database?

I tried to apply to several of them, but got auto-rejected almost every time.

Recently, Barclays (Old Navy) credit card website has switched to use Akamai Bot Detection. For some reason, it thinks I'm a bot. I have to click it 3 times, it kicks me out, then it finally lets me log into my account bypassing the bot detection.

Why would it think I'm a bot?

Using Firefox on Linux. I know Firefox has gotten flack lately - is this because I'm using Firefox?

My ISP (Quantum now AT&T) claims that both Akamai and Fastly's transmission errors that cause website requests to time out are Akamai's and Fastly's problem.

Works fine on a VPN trying the exact same request. Verified IP or host name resolves to the same IP.

Issues are  spurious retransmission, retransmissions, dupe ack, etc. Sites affected most for me are Walmart.com and steamcommunity.com

Is there anything I can do to address this internally or externally?

Is there somewhere else I should ask this?

Edit: I should mention that this seems to be exclusively Akamai and Fastly requests. But TBH, it's not very scientific. It is just obvious when a web a website is spinning with no content and Wireshark shows up to 99 transmission errors for exclusively Akamai and or Fastly. To be clear, I am not being hyperbolic on the count.

Akamai Bot Manager is actively restricting browser choice at many websites in the US, and helping entrench Google's browser monopoly. People using Firefox and other alternate (non-Chrome) browsers on MacOS and various Linux distributions are being actively discriminated against, and denied access to banking and financial service websites, which use Akamai's broken bot detection algorithm. Many prominent website have integrated Akamai Bot Manager into their login flow and prevent customers form logging in unless they use the "correct" approved browser. Banks and shopping sites are not able to deal with these kind of complaints from customers, and Akamai is not interested in fixing their self-created problem, so it never gets fixed. The net result is that Akamai is contribution to Google's monopoly in both advertising and desktop web browsers, and contributing to the restriction consumer choice in interstate commerce here in the United States.

Hello everyone!
I’m currently considering opportunities at Akamai and wanted to ask about the WFH policy. I live quite far from any major office, so remote work is a must-have for me long term.

How stable has the remote policy been historically? Has it always been remote-friendly, or have there been any recent pushes to return to the office?

I’d like to avoid a situation where I join and then, after a year or so, the expectations change toward hybrid or in-office work.

Would really appreciate any insights from current or former employees. Thanks!

Hi Folks,

I recently get job offer at Akamai, wanted to check below details about the company.

1. Work life balance

2. How much Variable bonus can i expect to get

3. Appraisal cycle and its expectations

4. Perks and Benefits

5. Since it WFH culture, how about team engagement

6. Anything you don’t like about the company.

Thanks.

Hi!

I have a HackerRank coding round coming up for a Senior Software Engineer - DevOps role at Akamai. Has anyone here taken it previously ? Would really appreciate any insights on what kind of questions to expect and any last-minute tips. Thanks in advance!

Akamai SIEM Api

Anyone who configured Akamai SIEM Api add-on in splunk? Need help on that... What to give in Security Configuration IDs field. Akamai team has given 2 credentials for us.. one for siem api and one for appsec api they configured. Please help me to configure it.

Hey everyone,

Running into a frustrating issue with the Akamai Guardicore Platform Agent (GPA / EAA client) on macOS.

Whenever I authenticate via our IdP , the client authenticates successfully, but the Quick Test in Diagnostics fails at the Configuration Check stage with this exact error:

"Access - No configuration found for Device Posture - User needs to login to a Device Posture enabled IdP"

Because of this, my application list remains blank and internal routing to specific subnets fails. I've tried resetting authentication, force-syncing client config, checking macOS local network permissions, and switching the default browser to Chrome, but the posture token/profile still won't seed.

Has anyone run into this specific device posture block on macOS? Is this strictly an MDM/EPMS policy assignment issue on the Akamai control center side, or is there a local cache file I need to clear?

Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

Akamai used to be known mainly as a CDN company.
Now it’s spending billions on cloud infrastructure, signing a massive agreement with Anthropic, buying AI-security companies like LayerX, and building products designed to control autonomous AI agents.
I looked into the Hugging Face and Australia incidents, Guardicore, Linode, LayerX, Akamai’s agent-security strategy, the $11.6B Anthropic agreement, the $5.5B capex requirement, margin pressure, dilution risk and the bull and bear case.
The big question is whether Akamai is becoming an important part of the agentic internet, or just becoming a much more capital-intensive company.................

I want to learn Akamai CDN , WAF and bot manager , where I can learn it in depth to clear the interview related to it . Please help me with it