Betfair Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Betfair

Pros – The people are friendly and are willing to help others to be successful as well.

Cons – Due to the chaos (like any other start-up environment), getting some answers to issues are a bit delayed at times....but will be received evidently.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Betfair

Pros – Good location
Causal environment, you can wear jeans at work everyday if you are the 'blue' fan
Various snack, wine and beer
Certain senior management are really good hits.
Have good opportunities to learn new things.
Business and product has good system knowledge.

Cons – Too much politics, it can be very difficult to work sometimes.
Less vision and inexperienced in regarding to technology.
Hardworking taken granted.
benefits only sound great as in the ad.

Advice to Senior Management – Be brave to appreciate your employee.
Do not hesitate to get rid of bad people.
Be fair and discipline the troublemaker.
Your employee need to live their life, work and life balance. Do not take granted.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Betfair

Pros – Betfair is by far the best place I've ever worked for. There's a lot of opportunity to learn new things and the compensation is competitive. The people are very professional and management is on top of things. You should try to work here... if you can get in lol

Cons – Management was trying to hire very rapidly and in the process they hired a few bad apples, but these people didn't last, you have to know your stuff to be last here.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire people on a contract-to-hire basis so you can get rid of them quickly if it don't work out. Don't hire FTE off the bat.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Betfair

Pros – The company is growing fast in San Francisco, picking up more and more talented people. It is a good chance to work with a company that has the look and feel of a start- up with international a foot print.
Betfair has a great product and will change to face to the betting industry in the US.

Cons – As like many fast growing technology companies some of the managers needs some work on the basic skills of managing people.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Betfair

Pros – Openness, willingness to do the right thing, challenge, mission, scale, experience, people, excitement. It's got good bones and huge potential.

Cons – Company has grown very quickly and it needs to rationalise performance levels across the group

Advice to Senior Management – Some of the easy things are too hard - we need more of the basics polished.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Betfair

Pros – If the US online gaming market ever opens, a sports exchange will be a next top ten online consumer product.

Cons – Until then - just another company trying to make a penny by chasing Zynga.

Advice to Senior Management – Differentiate yourself.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Betfair

Pros – Good location in SF; decent pay

Cons – Betfair US is not a place I can recommend. Senior IT management is incompetent. Opportunities for growth are not as good as you might expect in a large global company.

Advice to Senior Management – None

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Betfair full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Used to be a great atmosphere with generally dedicated staff, successful and talented employees. There was a entrepreneurial environment which has now been stifled.

Cons – Changes brought about by the new management team destroyed morale, more interested in saving money than creativity and success. the unique environment has gone forever and now just another dull corporate environment. The leaders who made the company what it was have left or are leaving and have been replaced by charlatans.

Advice to Senior Management – Too late now, changes too far down the line to stop. There was a need for more efficiency but the bull in a china shop approach was baffling. The new CEO carried out a strategic review of the company and then proceeded to ignore most of the advice.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Betfair full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Some really excellent people there.

Cons – Some truly terrible middle management that have somehow survived numerous culls

Advice to Senior Management – It might be too late, you've probably broken it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Betfair full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good people, challenging work place that pushes you and who wouldn't want to work in an office with sports playing 24/7 on huge wall mounted tv's.

Cons – I never really had any downsides working at Betfair. Management changed around a bit whilst I was there but that's because it's a fast growing company so if you don't like change....

Advice to Senior Management – Manage the internal changes to the company better.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company