Do the right thing - Senior Software Engineer FanDuel Employee Review

5.0
11 July 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The culture has always been to try to do the right thing, within the limitations of reality. There is a strong push to eliminate technical debt, and to empower employees to use their own initiative to do things well and improve things without having to get sign-off by management. Company offers a great working environment in terms of both the physical office and the freedom to work from home as and when it suits you.

Cons

There have been tough times recently, with a fair bit of belt-tightening due to the wave of legislation sweeping the US states. Things seem to be getting better again, and the recent New York legislation going in our favour feels to have been a sea change in the difficult legal landscape that we've seen since the end of 2015. Prior to that, we experienced serious growing pains as we struggled to recruit a huge number of new people to fill all the work we needed to get done.

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Pros

Great people, good impact roles

Cons

Low progression planning, advancement potential

4.0
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Pros

Colleagues who are both smart and genuinely nice A fun office environment, sports-related events A fair amount of non-financial perks Approachable leadership compared to many other large companies Top tier benefit offerings Great employee resource groups

Cons

Constant restructuring of teams, especially in Tech RIFs began happening more regularly almost every year A lot of senior leadership roles are disconnected from processes and work that is happening Business growth is largely outside of the control of employees - there's lot of market and industry based factors to consider D&I is only a priority if it's required to be or if the incentives are right Career growth opportunities are much more competitive and limited at mid/senior levels

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