What are perks and other benefits like at bet365?

Good money, good benefits (free food and drinks in the office)

Stressful job. High demand, short and controlled breaks.

If you aren't very career oriented and just want a stable 9-5 where you can get by contributing the bare minimum then it's the place for you. The bonus scheme I hear is decent (10%)

Where do I begin? - Culture: no socials (despite having a budget for it), poor people skills, and no one really cares about doing things correctly or improving, just do your 9-5 and go home. Team members don't even greet you in the office. You essentially come into office to attend teams calls and do your work with no collaboration which defeats the whole point of coming into the office. Never experienced such a cold workspace environment. The office is very cold and uninviting as well. - Technical debt unskilled staff: The state of some of the tooling and stack is very worrying. This is exacerbated by the poor quality of engineering talent and the consultants working for the company. They are very opposed to established open source software and essentially end up reinventing the wheel with inferior internal dependencies and undocumented tools created by employees which are forced on other teams. This ends up making simple features really hard to implement and reduces developer productivity. None of their applications can even use cloud services yet because they have blocked cloud SDKs. Developers don't have access to GCP and even getting access to a repo in Gitlab needs permission from your manager. They claim to be moving to the cloud but are still operating like 20 years ago. Up until COVID, they were still using desktops, only because of lockdowns did they start issuing laptops. This also means a lot of mid level engineers working in the company are working at the level of a junior, due to the restrictive environment. Best practices are often ignored, terrible code and over-engineered applications written by incompetent consultants with little or no oversight which becomes a liability when it comes to maintaining. - Lack of growth and learning: There is no budget for up skilling and learning or a development plan, and most of the knowledge you will gain will not be transferable and only be useful in the bet365 domain, due to best practices being flaunted. You will also be heavily siloed, working on repeated tasks and any push to use modern ways will be shot down because "it's not your responsibility". So if you would like to know more about cloud, containerization or automation, too bad, just keep your head down and keep doing tasks assigned to you. Working here will negatively impact your professional development if you have career aspirations. - Pitiful benefits and mediocre facilities: You are given free lunch in the office once a week, which is usually disappointing and of poor quality. Often times there won't be any food left because a lot of staff will take more than 1 serving. No private healthcare insurance and a very strict WFH policy. The laptop you will be provided is a janky HP windows PC with a battery life that lasts no longer than 30 minutes, the company does not care about tech and enabling their employees, happy to cheap out on essentials. They will give you access to a linux vm via vmware which is not ideal but better than developing on windows. A lot of the other benefits are not something to brag about like getting birthdays off, 2 days a week in the office. The office which was refurbed recently is nothing to behold either, it's soulless and can be impossible to find a seat sometimes and takes about 15 mins at times to get the lift to your floor. They also don't provide charging ports for your phone on desks because they don't want people using their phones. Only 2 bathrooms per floor available (per gender) and a lot of staff lack the courtesy to the keep the bathrooms clean, so by the end of the day it's as bad as a public toilet. - Bloated Corporate Organisation and Toxic Management: It is impossible to exaggerate how bureaucratic and bloated the company is. Bet365 is essentially made of departments working against each other at times. Layers of middle managers and team leaders, whom you have to go through to get anything done outside your team. The company is still stuck in the past and is struggling to do agile. There's also a culture of micromanaging, you must log every ticket by the hour you have worked on and managers will be breathing down your neck towards the end of sprint and asking you why you took a break. You even need escalated permissions if you want to use your wireless keyboard with the work laptop. There are certain teams where people are struggling to find work and spend 3 hours a day doing actual work, while other teams drowning in technical debt with unreasonable deadlines working under pressure from senior management. Politics between departments is rife with managers trying to assert their dominance in the chain. Even getting requirements from internal stakeholders is not straightforward with requirements being changed midway, undoing months of hard work and clueless leadership asking for unrealistic outcomes. I was speaking to someone who had worked for the NHS and they said the NHS had less procedures and paperwork than Bet365. The only reason why this is viable is due to the bet365's early market entrance decades ago and the (unfortunate) popularity in sports betting.

Great benefits and perks. Great support for personal learning

No cons to working at bet365

Good benefits, nice office downtown

Administrative issues, can be a toxic environment,

Good pay and benefits also good health insurance

Micromanaging, nearly no sick pay, mgmt disaster

Nice company benefits and pay

Management needs to pay more attention on individual growth.

Great place to work. People, culture, benefits and pay!

24/7 business so shifts vary a bit

Good Pay and benefits overall

Micro management Extremely fast paced

Good benefits, fair judgement on situations

Parking can sometimes be difficult after 9

variety of company benefits and discounts, great salary plus bonus

not much, maybe canteen food could be better