Fast Enterprises reviews

The pay and benefits are quite good, specifically being paid for time worked over 40 hours per week (bonus time). That being said the ability to work more is frequently used for techs. There is lots of work that needs to be taken care of after hours and if you are not careful consume your life. But hey you're getting extra money ;P If you want work life balance, expect that sometimes the scale will be heavily weighted towards work. Working in a more technical position it was quite frustrating for me that all of their software is completely proprietary (aside from SQL Server Management studio & Visual Studio). There are some places to communicate with the rest of the company, but for most things in the technical realm you will need to reach out to someone directly. Sometimes their response is the equivalent of submit a ticket. In most cases if maintaining your programming stills is a goal it's not going to happen at work. Being that my role as a tech was not a development position, this was expected. Still think it might be important to note. Relocation, can be a monumental undertaking. FAST uses some external contractors that handle relocating you... The entire process might be handled, but sometimes it feels like a never ending game of telephone (if your rep answers the phone). The process itself can be exhausting along with the fact that you need to work as this all happens around you. When it goes well, all is good... but there are lots of moving pieces in a relocation so keep that in mind. You can be asked to move more often than the 3-4 years that fast says is their avg. I worked for the company for a bit over 2 years and moved twice, along with many other folks. As the companies products and markets shift the people working outside of headquarters will be in flux. All and all weigh the pros and cons against your goals, my goals were to have a job out of college, to learn, and to see the country. For a time the pros out weighed the cons... Think deeply about your expectations before accepting a job and consider if working for FAST meets those expectations.

The founders are extremely hesitant to accept policy changes. This ages the company and reveals the resistance to growth here. For example the work from home policy. It doesn’t matter if the site is exceeding expectations from home they really just want people in office. They seem to adapt fairly well to the industry when they notice they need a new product, but the company’s policies are as old as the founders. Which would be fine if they had employees they started with. However, they don’t and the issue with not changing with the times is the long term retention of the zoomer/millennial employee. Once we understand this then we can see the underlying issue here… retaining the Fastie with 2-5 years of experience with the company. They work you hard and they pay you on par with the industry (they would disagree, but I’ve interviewed at enough places to know better) and that would be fine and dandy. However, they don’t take into account the employees opinions on their policies. Zoomers/millennials want to be heard… Coming up on 2 years of working here it has been a relatively great experience, but it’s already starting to feel less than a great experience. Which might make me sound greedy for wanting a great experience, but I spend 8 hours of my day doing gentax….. something that is a nontransferable skill. I should love what I do, so let’s keep it that way! I want to be a 5 year or 10 year fastie, but if you don’t look out for the little guys (us) you’ll keep losing the experienced fasties faster than you can hire.