Pros: Good culture and nice offices

Cons: Poor senior management and poor work culture from the American side of the company.

Pros: Work on large-scale, high-throughput systems with real business impact. There is strong exposure to event-driven architectures, cloud-native technologies, and production ownership. Teams value engineering rigor, performance optimisation, and reliability. There are good learning opportunities for backend and distributed systems engineers.

Cons: It is a fast-paced environment with high ownership and responsibility, which can be demanding during peak periods. Teams move quickly, so engineers are expected to learn new systems and adapt rapidly.

Pros: Whenever people ask me what I like about working at Fanatics during interviews and such, I have a ready answer: the company cares about its people. For a short period, I was unhappy with my role and the team I was on. I voiced that, and they found me something that was a better fit, rather than saying "tough beans, do it or find something else." Also, we have lots of employees in Florida. During the recent hurricanes, the message to those employees was "take care of yourself and your family, and take care of work when those are done." I've never had another job where I really felt like my bosses had my best interest in mind. I feel like, in general, in the modern day, you can't. I do here. They're looking for opportunities to help me grow and advance in my career. From a tech perspective, it's an exciting time to be here as it feels like a startup, but we're not worried about where our next round of funding is coming from. The work culture is very much "get your work done." The expectation is 40 hrs/wk, and I've literally had a manager say "you should take more time off." There's a real understanding here that people do their best work when they're not burnt out. Finally, we have several layers of management, but it feels very flat. The CTO will book 1-1s with you if you need/want it. The culture, at least in the tech department, is great in that way.

Cons: On the flip side of that positive note, it sometimes feels like a startup combined with a bureaucracy. There are lots of tools we have to use because a higher up says so, but those teams are agile and the tools are not fully developed, etc.