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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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Reviews by job title

348 reviews
1.0
Jun 29, 2021

Total Disaster

Sales
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work from home One Friday a month off

Cons

Like previous reviews Fastly has no business selling into the enterprise. They should stick to social media sites. Anyone that is decent at this company is leaving. They lose 2-3 good people per week and they can’t hire anyone decent as their compensation packages are far below average. Their enterprise customers are not going to renew and the worse part is, management isn’t even paying attention. I think they’re hoping 3 or 4 deals are going to save their year but probable won’t happen after the last major outage.

1.0
Jun 29, 2015

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

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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

2.0
Mar 14, 2025

Fastly falling apart

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

IC level colleagues are typically great. ENG and Product leadership is finally starting to figure out how to work together. Health care is decent and end of year wellness week. It’s a good place to get a few years experience in a new area or role for your resume. If you’re semi competent and have a backbone, work life balance is pretty good. Simon is awesome.

Cons

New exec team wrecked and continues to wreck company culture and the share price. All new incoming execs appear to be white guys affiliated with Cisco. HR is oddly invested in trying to develop bad managers that are destroying teams instead of, you know, getting rid of bad managers and keeping good ICs. Sales can’t seem to figure out how to compensate good sellers and drop sellers that game incentives for a better payout. Everyone wants “data driven decisions” but the already anemic data team keeps getting smaller?

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