Akamai
Headquarters:
8 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
Employees: 1,300+
CEO: Paul Sagan
Stock Symbol: AKAM
Website:
http://www.akamai.com
Career Page
Akamai helps companies deliver information
over the Internet from important data to streaming video. The
company uses its own on-demand distributed computing platform,
with more than 30,000 servers in 1,000 networks in 70 countries.
The company says it handles up to 20% of
the Internet's traffic and well over one billion Internet transactions
per day.
Akamai has offices throughout the U.S.
as well as Europe, Japan and Australia. The company's headquarters
and network operations center is located in Cambridge, MA.
Akamai was originally formed via an MIT
Entrepreneurship competition to help deliver content over the
Internet via distributed servers. Akamai officially launched
in April 1999 and Yahoo was a charter customer.
In addition to Yahoo, many top companies
rely on Akamai servers for their online business including Apple
Computer, Best Buy, E-Trade, Travelocity, 1-800-Flowers, Charles
Schwab and others. Six of the top seven computer companies are
Akamai customers and half of the 50 top online retailers.
Akamai has more than 1,300 employees with
over 625 in Massachusetts.
In 2007, the company generated revenues
of $636.4 million, a 48% gain from the previous year, and net
income of $101 million.
Benefits Offered
- Medical insurance
- Prescription drug coverage
- Vision benefits
- Dental insurance
- Healthcare Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Business travel accident insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Group home and auto insurance
- 401(k) retirement and savings plan
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Dependent Care Spending Account
- Educational assistance plan
- Pretax commuter benefit
- Lifeworks Employee Assistance Program
- Group entertainment discounts
- Fitness programs
- 3 weeks paid vacation
- 11 paid holidays
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