Toxic Work Environment With Poor Leadership Support - Data Scientist DraftKings Employee Review

1.0
25 Nov 2024
Recommend
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Pros

•If you’re a new grad, this place might seem like a good way to get your foot in the door. You’ll probably learn a lot quickly because they throw you right into the deep end. •Some team members are great and genuinely supportive when they’re not caught up in the toxicity. •They advertise unlimited PTO, which sounds great at first (but see below…).

Cons

•The culture can be pretty toxic. Some people constantly talk over others in meetings or act passive-aggressive, and management doesn’t seem to care. It’s hard to feel valued or heard. •Leadership is heavily influenced by favoritism. If you’re not in their inner circle or “on their side,” good luck getting your concerns addressed. •They hire lots of new grads, probably because they’re easier to overwork and won’t push back as much. •The on-call expectations are ridiculous. It’s super demanding and completely ignores any concept of work-life balance. •The “unlimited PTO” is kind of a joke. Sure, it’s “unlimited,” but management won’t let you take more than two weeks off at a time, so it’s not as flexible as they make it sound. •If you’re experienced, this place will frustrate you. Creativity and innovation take a backseat to just keeping your head down and going along with whatever leadership wants.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

The pros about this place is that if you want a quiet area to work when you do work there out of 3 days out of the week that they have you work there. At least that's what it was when I worked there I don't know if they've changed it. Then you work 2 days at home. It's very quiet. Most the time there is nobody there. They will train you and help you but you will eventually have to be able to do it on your own.

Cons

If you switch over to departments don't depend on the company keeping you. If you mess up. The company was literally going through a buyout with the lottery company when I was working there and everything was crashing. So I got let go because there were a lot of errors and the system that they upgraded to was worse than the one that we worked on. So basically if anything happens with the systems just make sure that you know what you're doing and that you catch up on everything.

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