FanDuel Reviews

Cons

Not much to complain about

Cons

-For such a fun product like fantasy sports, the office culture and environment is incredibly lackluster and leaves much to be desired. Complete lack of energy amongst employees (the ones that even show up)
-Many managers/directors not equipped to manage staff and need serious management training
-Decisions made in silos and lack of communication to cross functional teams
-Inefficient organization leading to duplicative work and spinning wheels on various teams, or on the flip side, crucial initiatives falling through the cracks due to lack of accountability
-Trying to do too much at once, and not doing any of them with the focused attention needed. Lack of prioritization from top down
-Good work is often not rewarded and on the same token, lack of performance is often overlooked.
-Even at start-up standards, a lack of professionalism and responsiveness especially amongst certain more tenure employees

Cons

Low pay, they used to give out company "swag" no longer do (only select people in the company have access, have people in management positions who are not qualified to be there, no growth, minimum pay increases, lack of transparency from management

Cons

- If you're looking for stability and job security, stay far away, this is as volatile of a business as I've ever come across (multiple people laid off after starting less than 6 months prior)
- Nonexistent onboarding process after hire lots of ambiguity about what my roles/responsibilities would be
- Often times neglected immediately after start date, made it very difficult to learn and grow into an integral member of the team and didn't feel empowered in any way
- Extreme cynicism and negativity amongst majority of employees that I didn't buy into at first, but realized over time that those people knew exactly what they were talking about
- Many more sayers than there are doers
- Too many cooks in the kitchen
- No defined company-wide mission, lots of different agendas competing against one another for attention
- So many pointless and obstructive meetings that produce nothing but a waste of time and resources

Cons

The industry as a whole is shaky right now and there's been several rounds of RIF. Senior leadership is flipping over right now.

Cons

So many bad deals with team partnerships and vanity hires. Wasted an incredible amount of money on absurd projects like "FanDuel TV" --seemed like everyone was a VP at one point.

Cons

Overall feeling of cynicism and negativity from a lot of employees (granted they have seen a lot of layoffs, etc). A lot of talk and not so much action from the company for making changed.

Cons

All companies have their flaws. FanDuel is certainly not an exception. Biggest con at the moment is an overly negative employee base.

Cons

Underpaid versus market avg because of the WFH benefits and other office amenities.

Extremely hard to move around internally as things are slow to move.

Cons

Not much structure and things can tend to happen very last minute but such is life in a startup. If you’re the kind of person that isn’t much of a self starter this probably isn’t the place for you.