Extremely fast growing startup that cares for it's people
Pros
Fastly has grown tremendously in it's ~5 years of existence. With that, you have the normal growing pains of trying to scale a product as well as take care of it's people. But at it's core, Fastly is an amazing company that: - Cares deeply about it's employees and customers. The company spends a massive amount of time and money to make sure employees are happy. And it's not on useless things like ping pong tables and X-boxes. They upgraded our benefits this year which was great. - Is growing tremendously - I have never worked for a company that has such adoring customers. The churn rate is non-existent and the customer satisfaction rating is awesome - Wants to do right by the community and Internet at large. We provide a ton of free CDN for open source projects including Linux, Python etc. - Doesn't exaggerate it's success or capabilities like others in the CDN space - Work-life balance is great. There is no pressure to burn yourself out. There is ample opportunity to though, given the growth etc. but it's up to each individual to choose the amount of work to take on
Cons
With such rapid growth comes some challenges: - Took a long time to pivot the company to a Product focused org, we are on the right track now but we lost some time while it happened. - Some missteps on hiring Senior management. The current team is extremely good now though after some initial pain - Exists in a space that is dominated by one player - Akamai. However, we have done a tremendous job taking them on - to the point they are doing everything they can to keep customers from leaving them to go to us (or trying to take our existing customers - to which we have so far held them off), but they have deep pockets and a sales/marketing machine
