Top 10 reasons to join CAST...

1. It’s an exciting and long-term project:
   CAST is not a company selling tools to fill a gap in a sought-after acquirer’s portfolio. Cashing out the following year is not the goal. The CEO and its Boards of Directors are committed to long-term entrepreneurship, and CAST is here to create its own market space and to make an impact. With the concept of Application Intelligence, CAST is at the forefront of a paradigm shift in the enterprise application development world. Gradually, the industry is moving into a more mature era, where development must be run like a business, driven by performance and operational excellence. It is exciting to those at CAST not to just be commercially successful, but also to introduce transparency into an often, very obscure world, and change the way things are being managed and done. There are companies that ride waves and others that make them. CAST is creating a new market space that revolutionizes the way IT executives run application development today.
   
2. Huge market, the sky’s the limit:
   CAST provides a much needed technology for thousands of companies and system integrators worldwide that need to boost their level of maturity. A rough estimate of the potential market size gives a minimum of 4 billion dollars. And this is just the beginning.
   
3. Market leader position and strong barriers-to-entry:
   Leading analysts recognize CAST as the leader of this emerging market and no other software company possesses a technology that handles most modern development languages and architectures. This is the result of over 16 years of R&D investment ($65M cumulative), in the field of static system analysis.
   
4. CAST is a solid company:
   CAST is not a "slideware start-up" with dreams of conquering the world. We have been serving the needs of Fortune 500, government agencies and system integrators in Europe for years. CAST has a healthy balance sheet, is free of debt and has a key, long-term financial partner, the giant Allianz group. The most recent financial press releases show a profitable 35% growth.
   
5. Selling a real product::
   With already 650 customers and thousands of software applications being currently analyzed by the CAST Application Intelligence Platform, CAST product depth is field-proven and unrivaled. CAST’s R&D team of elite software engineers, educated in some of the most prestigious engineering institutions worldwide, have been working over 15 years in a long terms commitment to developing the top technology in the market.
   
6. High growth expected:
   CAST expects to become increasingly profitable, and is forecasting compound two-digit annual growth for the coming five years, with 50% growth of new software sales. CAST’s size will triple within the coming 5 years, bringing many carrier opportunities for those in line with company values.
   
7. The right place at the right time:
   Too early is too early. Too late is too late. CAST offers the best possible timing for those who want to be “in the right place at the right time” - a year before the first analysts’ magic quadrant, one year after initial success has been proven. Early enough to have quotas and goals that are significantly over-achievable, late enough to have its own infrastructure, inside sales, field marketing and PR plan to sustain field efforts.
   
8. Fair compensation with possible big upside and generous stock option plan:
   CAST’s compensation packages and benefits are competitive with industry leaders, but the chance of significant over-achievement is real and the accelerators generous. To reward a long-term commitment to the company, CAST offers very significant capital gain potential over a period of five years.
   
9. Passion and high-tech for the technically-oriented:
   CAST is a place for the passionate. Our deep understanding of application development is rooted in practical field experience and our people strive to deliver value through innovative technology.
   
10. No politics and a positive attitude:
    At CAST, we believe that the greatest asset is our people and that our people’s greatest quality is their enthusiasm and positive attitude. Our success is measured not just by the number of our customers and our market value. Being positive every day and making our customers, partners and colleagues happy every single hour is just as important. Our hiring and management practices truly follow these principles. While many software companies are hindered by politics as they grow, CAST is a politics-free zone. The CEO’s values are straightforwardness, respect for the individual and a strong work ethic. Everybody can thus maintain a positive attitude and work together at building a very successful and respectable company.