What's the Engineering team like at Akamai?

Certainly some bright minds and hardworking folks, but the bulk of the team is average, mostly due to the heavy competition in the Bay, with Akamai being at odds with the giants and not being able to compete financially wise, and more recently not being able to trigger interest in candidates from a projects/technology standpoint.

There are some very good people here, but the office in Santa Clara seems to be crowded with lots of B players, mostly because it's hard from a recruiting standpoint to compete with the Facebook and Google of the world in the Bay.