Cambridge-Based Akamai Tech Giant To Hire 'hundreds'

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Akamai plans to hire several hundred people this year.

Akamai Technologies Inc. CEO Tom Leighton told Bloomberg TV Thursday during an interview his company would probably hire "several hundred more" employees this year.

It comes after rough six months for the Cambridge-based tech giant. During winter they laid off about 400 people, roughly 5 percent of its workforce around the globe.

Leighton told Bloomberg that following the quarterly results the firm was in a good place.

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In 2016 Akamai partnered with Boston Properties to lease a newly-constructed building at 145 Broadway, in the heart of Cambridge’s Kendall Square neighborhood. The approximately 486,000 square foot building was scheduled to open at the end of 2019.

The company was founded in 1998 by an MIT grad student named Daniel Lewin along with Leighton who was an MIT applied mathematics professor. According to its website, Akamai has deployed the most pervasive, highly-distributed content delivery network with more than 240,000 servers in some 130 countries and within more than 1,700 networks around the world. They have about 7,600 employees.

See more of the interview on Bloomberg TV here: Akamai Expects To Grow By Several Hundred Employees

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