lack of clear direction & cohesion in N.A. with European leadership after going public - Senior Software Engineer Sportradar Employee Review

3.0
2 Nov 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, reasonable work/life balance (on-call expectations excluded - see below), family friendly, and a fun group (especially if you love sports). Some decent opportunities to work on more greenfield and even cutting edge technology (if you are placed right - see below on the legacy issue).

Cons

As with almost all software companies 5 years or older - maintenance of legacy stacks, especially after M&A into the bigger firm. Typical problems of a large corporation after going public: re-orgs, middle manager switch-ups all over the place, build this, tear that down, leadership ghosting... it feels like an attempt at generating something amazing from controlled chaos, but in my experience, the outputs from this process are not gratifying to the engineers on the ground who feel push & pulled to deliver the actual results. Biggest con: on-call requirements on a pretty high rotation. I was 24/7 every five weeks, sometimes supporting software I never worked on and had little knowledge of how to fix if something major broke, and they want it fixed NOW. Second biggest con: compensation calculation for remote workers based on Minneapolis cost of living, which is significantly lower than some of the regions they hire remote workers out of (including mine on the West coast). It seems most other major firms adjust their pay rate based on the states they are hiring in, and they need to figure that out or just stop hiring from those locations.

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5.0
2 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Very flexible with scheduling. Nice bonus job that you can do after work. Not too difficult and if you’re already watching the game you might as well be getting paid for it. Supervisors and management are great and schedule very well.

Cons

Hard to get a lot of hours after the month of November. Guaranteed to work at least part of a Saturday almost every week.

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2.0
23 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

There are some very smart, very strong team members. However, those individuals are leaving in droves.

Cons

The executive leadership team, especially Carsten have lost their way. Increasing demands on staff, while cutting team staffing across all functions, forcing 5 days in office without thinking through a plan and how it will effect families, and lack of raises the last few years has created a very stressed and overworked culture. This company has fully shifted into an "appease the shareholders" phase of cost cutting, do more with less phase which is having a large effect on the quality of talent. There is a constant shift of senior leadership with changing priorities when the actual fix to most problems are to just add low level staff to do work. This place is overrun with Sr leaders demanding KPI/KRI updates, sitting in meetings, and not much time spent doing actual work.

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