Fastly Reviews

C-Level execs are the poison of the entire company. Core values are transparency and communication, but this is a joke within the company culture itself. They ask for feedback but it's not truly heard and nothing changes. Reviews are pointless. They really need to listen to employees at the lowest level. Lots of turnover. It was a great place to work, at the start of 2017 it all went pear shaped. There's zero management training, so you end up with managers who have never managed anything. It can be a real nightmare.

This is a 7 year old "start up" but many of the start up problems exist within this company. Common start up complaints that many experience or see in Fastly include; preferential treatment is given to those < 50 to be hired by the company or those who are buddies or dating the C levels or VPs, misogynistic/boys club attitude, lack of diversity, no transparency or communication is received from the C level managers, middle management heavy (although most start ups have a flat hierachy), nickel and dime attitude towards expenses, and cannot retain employees. As others have mentioned in previous reviews, the culture at this company is the worst in SF (think of the recent problems with Uber). C level managers provide no transparency and little direction leaving the middle managers (whom most have little to no experience managing others) to attempt to provide guidance for their respective teams. Bullying and inappropriate behavior is common place, people have been fired in ways which are humiliating to the individual (even if they meet their sales quota, you could still be fired), throwing others under the bus to appear more valuable to the business is normal here (VPs and other managers exhibit this behavior, it comes from the top down) and many managers are either two -faced or confrontational when it comes to problem solving, and this is creating dysfunctional teams / teams that work in silos. The arrogance of this company is beyond belief, they act like they are the next"uber" but are unheard of in the Bay area.