Fastly reviews

Fastly is great on paper but fails in practice. In an effort to appear as though they are doing "all the right things" they miss the mark of actually creating a welcoming and supportive place to work. Hiring and promotions are often based on who is friends with who before quality of work. Some people work 60 hours a week, some work 20-30 - both being paid FTE. A mass exodus is beginning and Fastly is placing warm fuzzies over actually addressing the issues. Teams have conflicting goals, which creates tension and inefficiencies. New internal tools get added routinely with little to no context on why or feedback from the people who have to use them. When rolling out a tool, there is not discussion around EOL'ing the current ones (e.g., there are currently four training tools, all being used). Anonymous employee satisfaction survey's are by no means anonymous and when presenting feedback to company, neutral and negative feedback is scrubbed from the list.

con: probably the worst leadership team I've ever seen, and this is being in SF startup life for the past 10 yrs,they watch their backs and only care about themselves without any investment in teaching others or listening to, trusting the people they hire.meetings are horribly managed here. they hem, haw, and quibble over everything, and most of the time this prevents anything from actually getting decided in a meeting or getting done at the co., period. Ironic that their product touts innovation and speed, and yet internal progress is mired in bureaucracy and gets stalled..engineering has especially seen better days at this company, although fresh blood might fix some of the deep-rooted issues