Great Engineers, less sure about the rest - Senior Software Engineer FanDuel Employee Review

3.0
Aug 23, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working with some great engineers on problems with challenging aspects like handling significant scaling and a fast-evolving landscape. Some great tooling such as unlimited on-demand replicas of the full stack allowing much easier investigation, debugging & testing. Fast release cadences supported by significant CI pipelines, automation. Lovely offices with nice perks. Flexible working really does mean flexible here, rather than being a codeword for allowing you to do unpaid overtime if you want.

Cons

Engineering is isolated from it's CTO by a layer of non-technical people at VP level. They're not bad people, but it makes for a difficult experience and restricts potential career growth opportunities once you're near the top of the Engineering tree. Salaries are decent, but very widely variable within a role - if you don't want to negotiate hard you are likely to do worse than colleagues more interested in fighting for more.

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this company is a sinking ship. its values have changed from a good product and happy employees to we will do anything at all to stay relevant. sports betting is a depleting business. FanDuel let go over 500 people in one day and proceeded to have a massive ad event and paid for peoples subway rides with knicks alum and merch and everything...on the same. exact. day. They do not care about you and they will get rid of anyone. I would not recommend anyone work here unless maybe you just graduated and are looking for experience. We just got rid of our CEO and our CPO is leaving as well as several other high level employees because there is no saving this ship. jump off now is my advice.

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