OpenBet Reviews

3.1

47% would recommend to a friend

(399 total reviews)

Jordan Levin

50% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

OpenBet has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 399 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The OpenBet employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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399 reviews
2.0
6 Dec 2019

Not great, not terrible

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work life balance The management within Australia is/was competent and cared about the employees Fun team to work with Really smart engineers Occasionally interesting problems arise and it's a fun challenge as an engineer to find a solution

Cons

Everything you heard about the tech being legacy is wrong. It's not legacy, it's ancient. You should be a paleontologist to be working with something that ancient. The primary language used is TCL and the database is Informix, enough said. Pay is much lower than what you could earn at competitors. Let's just say you are looking at a 25-30% raise if you switch jobs. The local management within Australia is great, but I can't say the same about the ones at the top of the food chain. The company has been sold thrice in the few years I have been there. Their primary focus is constantly looking for higher bidders instead of focusing on making a sustainable product or rewriting the decades old code. The tech debt is, well let's just say at Chernobyl levels and it's a testament to the engineers that the product is still managing to hold well even though it's dated.

3.0
5 May 2014

A good place to start

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I joined the company more than 5 years ago and looking back it was a great place to start. Great people, good culture nice benefits and opportunities to work abroad.

Cons

Their technologies are outdated and won't help you find your next job. The direction the company is moving towards looks pretty grim. Loads of buzzwords coming from new senior hires but all I see is loads of old code with not tests, and the first attempt to modernise the company and bring in "products" failed, mostly due to the lack of tests documenting existing functionality. No new customers for a while now as initial costs are too high for most prospective customers.

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