Fast Enterprises reviews

3.7

60% would recommend to a friend

(600 total reviews)
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Martin Rankin

72% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

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1.0
Oct 4, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are excellent. Salaried positions still pay overtime. They throw money and liquor at employees like no company I've ever seen. Pay is relatively good for new graduates.

Cons

This company revolves around .NET developers. Management is fairly terrible, and there is a very bipolar interaction between managers and employees. One moment, they're throwing open bars and free meals at you and the next, they're deriding the most inane things. The benefits thrown at you are to get you to stay there pulling long hours. The actual development work is fairly simple and will not make you a better developer. Most of it was below the level of many college courses. This company moves employees to new locations with little notice. Most can take it for two years or so. They do not know how to manage anyone who is not a developer, and their offices have some of the worst environments in which I've ever had to work. Their satisfaction with employees has more to do with how much they personally like them rather than contributions and value adding accomplishments. If they decide they don't like someone, they're gone for any or no reason. There is definitely a "boys club" atmosphere, and work life bleeds way too far into personal life, making things too much of a popularity contest. When a company is throwing things at you for free, you need to figure out where the catch is. This may be a decent opportunity for new grads to make decent money, but I would not advise staying with this company long term. They're still operating as a startup in a niche market, sucking of state government dollars so the owners can blow money at strip clubs. They will chew up and spit out recent graduates who often don't have much real world experience. Having worked a number of other organizations, I could tell that things were very wrong within two weeks of starting yet still stuck around.

3.0
Apr 7, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

- Delivers an excellent product that is extremely well received by their clients. - Effectively prioritizes the needs of their clients (and employees) above their profit margin. - Offers good pay and benefits, including paid overtime. - Fosters camaraderie amongst its workforce with company-funded social events at each of its project sites. - Maintains a solid business outlook for continued growth and future demand for their services.

Cons

- Frequent relocation (often with very little notification). - Expectation to work a large amount of overtime. - Little opportunity for promotion within the company.

5.0
Jan 17, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

- get to work with software that is cutting edge in terms of its flexibility and wide-range of practical applications. Fast's software has made an huge impact on several markets and still has so much more potential. - coworkers are like extended family, including peers at the same level as me, but also supervisors and juniors. Outside work, we do tons of things together-- travel, sports, meals. - Fast is a very inclusive of families in social activities, both big and small. Fast throws an unbelievable annual meeting/gathering for all employees and families. - Fast clients like us! The company philosophy and culture does not revolve around squeezing as much money from government clients as possible. While government culture differs with Fast's corporate culture in ways that are sometimes stressful, there is a lot of mutual respect and recognition that everyone is working towards common goals. - pay raises can be significant and are based on merit I've worked at other companies and I thought they were really great. But Fast is really special. For some of the people with negative comments, if it's your first job out of school maybe you should see what it's like elsewhere. The grass may not be as green as you think...

Cons

- moving around is required. It's not for everyone at every stage in their lives. moving can be exciting and sad at the same time-- sad to leave friends behind, but exciting when making new friends and reconnect with other fast friends - Fast believes in not only keeping promises made to clients, but exceeding them. Sometimes this makes for long hours, especially around project deadlines.

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