Fast Enterprises reviews

-Tech team at this company is treated exactly like the ICs, but worse (yay!). You will be on call 24/7 365. Despite having "help" from a team in HQ, you will get called to work outside of office hours... a lot. I am called at minimum twice a week outside of hours (usually between 12 am and 6 am), and I am considered lucky. You will likely be the ONLY person on your team that has to do this. -If you are not a white male, good luck having your salary keep up with those that are -Incompetence is overlooked, and in some cases, rewarded. Be prepared to pick up the slack. -Having to talk to HR or Relocations team is a nightmare. They are in over their heads and condescending. -It is easy to get stuck here. Your salary will not keep up with the market and your skills will decline.

Fast puts immense pressure on employees to move often and to bigger and better projects. Typically this means going to places where more help is needed - with a higher workload, tighter deadlines, and higher stress. As a general rule, those who refuse to move when asked will be severely limited for growth (i.e. raises) in the future. The salary/raise structure is odd. You get raises based on your performance score for the year (with a scale of -1 thru 3). And your raises/bonuses (or pay cut, I suppose) scale accordingly. Salary is not directly affected by your position in the company. So what that results in is that if you offer to "move up" to be a system architect, for example, your workload can drastically increase, but you don't get a raise until the next annual performance review. And even then, if you don't earn enough points, you don't get a raise. In other words, your salary is not tied to your position. So now I am seeing experienced people in the company with over a decade of experience deciding to step down from demand roles since they keep their salary anyway. It disincentivizes employees from taking on harder roles, which leads to gaps needing filled and odd power structure dynamics. Lots of new hires, and most of them fresh out of college leads to general lack of experience across the board. That coupled with everyone moving to different sites all the time means you get people with little experience in an area "fixing" problems inefficiently, and often creating more problems or difficulty in system maintainability later. Many of the skills are non-transferrable to comparable jobs in the industry due to Fast's proprietary system architecture.