Fast Enterprises reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(1,391 total reviews)
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Martin Rankin

69% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Fast Enterprises has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,391 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fast Enterprises 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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5.0
Dec 11, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fast perpetuates a friendly, happy work environment. I feel like Fast makes a real effort to compensate its employees competitively. Due to the fact that Fast is still a moderately sized company, there is not a huge amount of "corporate red tape" that needs to be navigated. It is relatively easy to express opinions and ideas that can make the company successful. Employees can have input and that input is heard and acted upon. I personally enjoy the frequent moving to different locations. Fast makes every effort to ensure that these moves are as painless as possible.

Cons

Sometimes things that you thought were set in stone (like a relocation) change last minute and it can be difficult to adjust quickly.

5.0
Dec 11, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The founders of the company remember what its like to be the employee and as such they take care of their own employees way beyond what is expected. Paid benefits, good salary, paid OT and people who take your happiness seriously are all aspects that make Fast an awesome company to work for. The work is never the same, the clients love the product and we're given free range (within reason of course) of coming up with solutions to business processes.

Cons

As of this review we are growing faster than we have resources to cover - the biggest con right now is that you have not applied to this company for a job.

5.0
Dec 11, 2013

Bright group, challenging work, incredible product

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The work is very challenging. There is never a dull moment. That said, it is also very rewarding... financially and mentally. You can't really put a dollar value on the professional development that occurs as a result. Almost every rollout is a new set of people with unique needs from the software. As a result your problem-solving, business analysis, and similar skills improve by leaps and bounds every day. The product they offer is very strong. It kicks butt resulting in successful projects, happy clients, and generally high morale. The competition is all big-name software firms, but their products aren't even remotely close in functionality, cost-effectiveness, or success ratio. It feels great being the little guy and going into these incredibly large, complicated projects and doing a better job, at a better price, and actually delivering on time. Structure is very horizontal, access to the partners is surprisingly open. Partners are very involved, very hardworking, and have an impressive mix of genius and business acumen. They seem to go out of their way to do the right thing for the employees and the clients and that ideology permeates the company culture. People are generally fun-loving and very bright. They hire really well, lots of math majors, lots of Engineering/CS majors, and overall just a good, interesting mix of people.

Cons

Depending on the type of person you are, moving every couple of years can be taxing. The physical relocation process is well managed but the answer to "where will I go next" is often times complicated and hard to nail down. If you're big on "Titles" the horizontal nature can be frustrating. The room to grow is definitely there though as they reward hard work and professional growth with better compensation and more opportunities. The opportunities will often result in even more work and more responsibility but that's just how the corporate world works in general. They turn the software contracting paradigm on it's head and then smash it into a million little pieces. People with previous software industry experience often find they need to throw away their previous conceptions about what a software company is "paid to do" and embrace the company culture. It's scary, but it works.

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