Fastly

• I was lucky enough to have a manager who genuinely cared about my growth, knew how to play to my strengths, and advocated for our team.
• The people I worked with were all incredibly kind, smart, and helpful. I learned a lot from them.
• I got hired when Fastly was 100% remote so work-life balance was awesome. Unlimited PTO and monthly wellness days was nice too, but not sure how much longer that will last.
• Generally felt like a pretty laidback place to work overall. The work was sometimes challenging but never felt impossible.

• In the past year, there was a lot of shuffling around at the top level, which gave the impression that leadership didn’t really know what they were doing.

• Also in the past year, there’s been more and more unplanned work coming from the top down. We would make a quarterly plan, and then the CEO would suddenly have us make a new unplanned feature because if we did, it would move the stock price (it never did).

• Fastly said they were committed to being fully remote, but recently started requiring people to return to the office and only hiring local positions. Someone asked why we were switching to hiring locals only in an all-hands, and the unsatisfying answer basically boiled down to “because I said so.”

• The stock price is in the gutter, so the RSU comp you’ll get won’t be worth very much.

• I really enjoyed my time working there, but the experience was soured by how cold and abrupt the layoffs were. The contrast between how I was treated by my direct manager and how I was treated by the C-suite was incredibly jarring.

• Apparently, CEO Todd sometimes yells at people.

You should consider taking a pay cut before cutting employees.