Fast Enterprises reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(1,390 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 1,390 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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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.

1.0
Sep 3, 2023

review of how employees here are just cogs in the machine

Anonymous employee
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Pros

there's a lot of work to keep you busy

Cons

there are a lot of challenges being with this company. they are pulling back on their remote work and starting to force us to come back onsite/hybrid. Not only that, but the company is always wanting us to relocate and move state to state. my final complaint with this organization is the fact that colleagues have actually ended their lives during rollouts due to stress. Not only did the company keep it on the hush hush, the company also lacks the care to promote mental health or self care in any way. I would avoid this company unless you are out within a year.

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Fast Enterprises Response
2y
Providing comprehensive wellness support is priority to FAST. Please reach out to HR for further discussion.
1.0
Nov 8, 2018

Disappointing career

Recommend
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Pros

- Coworkers are awesome people; the vast majority of people I have worked with are nice - Overtime pay - Health insurance is paid for and good - Relocation

Cons

- Overtime requirements are ridiculous and your performance is measured on the number of hours that you work rather than the quality of your output. - The work life balance at this company is a joke. If a rollout is scheduled, you are expected to give up all your weekends and holidays for months leading up to it: I was not allowed to go home to see my family for any of the major holidays. Furthermore, if you're sick, you're still expected to meet overtime expectations. There's no sympathy for what is happening in your personal life. - The vacation policy is pretty limited. 10 days is pretty low. - The technologies used are pretty limited and old (VB.NET/SQL) - Relocation to state capitals - No 401k matching

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Fast Enterprises Response
7y
Thank you for taking the time to provide a review. As a company, we care what employees are saying and work to implement change when we receive constructive suggestions on ways to improve the lives of our clients and employees. Please see comments below and we’d also invite a conversation with you on your situation and how we can improve this. Regarding your comments on overtime, leaders are often the ones who work not only the smartest, but also the hardest. FAST is the leader in this industry. We hope that FASTies are proud to be part of something special and unique, and that they recognize that their hard work helps keep us on this path. Someone for whom a 40-hr standard work week, and 100% predictability are the priority may not be a good match with FAST. As you pointed out, FAST pays employees for the extra hours. Pay is not the end all be all and it is important to FAST that employees have time to do what they love outside of work. To help balance this, we communicate project schedules, so employees can plan their R and R around peak times. Project Managers work with the team to help manage the work load and offer staffing support from other sites during rollout as needed. During these times Project Managers and team Leads encourage team members to continue to do things that they love and that give them a chance to get their mind away from work. For example, an employee has the freedom to choose participating in a sports league on a Tuesday night and working on Saturday instead to meet their deadline. In regard to your experience with overtime, the situation you are describing is not FAST policy. We advise you to contact HR to discuss your situation. We are willing to work with employees and understand that people will get sick and need time off, but we do need you to communicate your concerns so that we can help. Regarding you comment on performance, we’re not sure how familiar you are with performance evaluations after being here for less than a year, but it is not measured by overtime. It is measured by the quality of your work. It is also measured by your actions as a “team player and how much you help others when you have the ability to do so. Regarding your comment on “technologies used are pretty limited and old”, our system is constantly evolving. Our objective is to provide functionally rich, reliable and affordable software to government clients. We will take advantage of any technologies that help us achieve those goals. However, because the governments are massive enterprises upon whose services millions of citizens rely, we emphasize functionality, reliability and stability over jumping on emergent tech. Many of our competitors in this industry have failed doing just that. We appreciate every business must evolve to remain viable, but it is important that we evolve our use of technology not just for technology’s sake, and that we always remember the citizens we serve. This approach has proven to be extremely valuable to our clients, while also providing FASTies with a rich environment in which to develop their technical skills.
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