Betfair Reviews

Pros

Pros include being a fun and friendly environment, reward packages and staff events.

Cons

Betfair hasn't "got" Agile yet. The number of people involved often can make things difficult to achieve.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to clarify roles nad responsibilities.

Pros

you can learn a lot
global reach of the business
opportunities to grow
recognized brand
cooperative people and teams
good atmosfere

Cons

changing ideas and priorities can hurt
sometimes too many things happen at the same time
bonus depending on weather
can make you feel like being a part of business that sucks money away from people

Advice to Senior Management

keep giving positive feedback
support in difficult times
plan more in advance and predict difficulties better
try to keep people rather than let them go elsewhere as much of the knowledge disappears with them

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.

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.

Pros

informal environment. lot of opportunities to explore at technology front. some of the best mind in industry work here.. technology team is amazing.. great blend of technologists spread across UK, romania and USA. few managers are amazing so is core platform team. can match or supercede any company in UK as far as technological advancement is concerned.

Cons

processes are still not very well defined .. still lot of knowledge sits in an individuals head. lot of expereinced people have parted away recently. though with teams building in romania and USA, this issue is less relevant.

Advice to Senior Management

nothing in particular..have seen some of the best managers here..

Pros

Great company full of talented, dedicated and proud people. Love of sport mandatory. Always a good buzz in the office.

Cons

Lack of organisational maturity makes it hard to navigate at times. Prone to the occasional knee jerk.

Advice to Senior Management

A little more trust would go a long long way. Keep the faith and push onwards and upwards.

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.

Pros

unique betting platform, growing company, good and relaxed atmosphere to work, multi-lingual colleages, nice office, good salary, most of the time it's fun

Cons

a fast growing company will not always pick up the right managers, sometimes it takes a long time before changes happen

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.

Pros

Very inclusive company, and technically skilled employees
Very good atmosphere in the office and facilities are good.
Leaders within their industry

Cons

High turn around of staff, which shows in some projects
Can some times feel that the management doesn't know the direction they want the company to go

Advice to Senior Management

The company should focus on a few goals and improve in those areas rather than going for the machine gun approach.