Great if you want to sell your soul - Training Coordinator Fast Enterprises Employee Review

Money is great, but there is really no point to it, if you do not have a life or anything to spend said money on. When I started with FAST, I was used to working long hours in order to finish a deliverable. I did not think the lack of work-life balance would really be a problem for me. I was wrong. Before you sign up, you have to understand that FAST will become your life. You will definitely be pulling close to a 60 hour work-week for at least 6 consecutive months. As you can see, my position was a Training Coordinator which does not seem that taxing, but overtime is even more extreme for the software developers. FAST grossly normalizes working overtime so that it is nothing special, it is expected of you and you can still get yelled at for not working enough, even if your work day started at 7 am and it is still 9:30 pm and there is no end in sight. No one will be impressed by your ambition to work hard or sacrifice spending time with special people in your life. This lifestyle is extremely hard on significant others, as FAST demands all your time and emotional capacity. If I could give Work/Life Balance on this review, 0 stars, I would. FAST says that all project sites are different and they pride themselves on not micro-managing project managers on how to run their project sites. This sounds great in theory, but in practice, it is a nightmare. Sexual harassment is abundant; HR knows this and refuses to take any meaningful action. From my experience, the leadership in management roles were a joke. My project site still expected some people to work in the office throughout COVID-19 and still demanded very intense work-loads.