Worst of the Worst - Anonymous employee Fastly Employee Review

1.0
Oct 20, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Fairly good product and engineering.

Cons

Lets start at the top. One of the most socially inept CEOs I've ever seen. It's amazing that the Board allows him to represent the company. Executive staff can't make a decision to save their lives. Executives are mired in minutiae and indecision. Sales and Marketing leadership doesn't know what they are doing. The company's only sales strategy is to knock the competition and undercut them on price. Recruiting is only interested in attaining their number with no regard to culture or skill. Definite divide between the employees that have been there a while and the new ones - the "veterans" having a sense of entitlement. This place is the stereotypical hipster startup that everyone makes fun of.

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