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Fastly

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Fastly reviews

3.3

43% would recommend to a friend

(348 total reviews)
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Kip Compton

61% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.5

Work/Life balance

3.3

Diversity & inclusion

3.3

Compensation and benefits

3.2

Culture & values

2.7

Career opportunities

2.6

Senior management

Fastly has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 348 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fastly employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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348 reviews
1.0
Oct 20, 2015

Worst of the Worst

Anonymous employee
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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.

5.0
Jul 1, 2015

The best kind of get-things-done

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Every profession is valued here, rather than having a certain engineering group or sales region placed on a pedestal. Everyone's work is valued, and everyone's pretty darn good at their jobs. The core product is killer, and no one's resting on their laurels: people are working hard to make things better every day. Despite that, there's a solid work life balance for a startup. The concept of "long hours as a badge of honor" is totally foreign here. Everyone deeply cares about the growth and success of other employees. Training is highly built into the culture, and professional growth is highly encouraged -- you're not pegged into a box once you're hired. The company is in the middle of the rapid headcount and customer growth phase, so needs change. If there's a problem you want to solve in the business, you can go for it.

Cons

Fastly's in a highly competitive market, so there's no time for great-gatsbyesque parties, lavish offsites, or the other surface level fluff that gets popularized in the media. There's fun times, and we definitely hang out with each other like friends, but you won't see Cake or OkGo playing a Fastly event, and you won't see a collection of 40yr scotches by the case. If you want to work in a company where you can play ping pong all day, or where there's all night DJing, they exist in the bay, and there's a ton of them, but Fastly isn't the place for that. We're outperforming our competitors by working hard, and leaving at sane hours (5-6pm) to recharge and be with our friends and families.

1.0
Jun 29, 2015

Don't waste your time (or talent) working here

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Solid core product Some teams have decent work environments: Engineering, Recruiting, Finance, Legal

Cons

No focus on growing the business (there is talk but very little action) Weakest Senior Leadership team I have worked with No focus on execution Way too many general office politics for a start-up The earlier employees are very cliquish and are not open to ideas from newer employees Earlier employees are randomly promoted in to roles they have no experience in

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