Pros: The work-life balance is good. It is a great team to work with.

Cons: Sometimes you have to work extended hours.

Pros: Salary is decent. There is a strong sense of ownership, with small and lean teams often having fairly large areas of responsibility and significant impact. The overall engineering scale is substantial without being excessively bureaucratic. The technology stack is fully cloud-native, and the company is generally ahead of the curve in adopting technologies such as cloud and AI. There are many talented people across the organization, and employees have good access to modern AI and developer productivity tools.

Cons: There are several policies that feel unnecessarily rigid and disconnected from how employees actually work. HR policies often seem designed more around serving the company's operational needs than improving the employee experience. The recently introduced leave policy is a good example. Having fixed numbers of CL, SL, and EL that accrue monthly does not align with reality, particularly for sick leave, which by definition is difficult to plan in advance. The leave structure also doesn't align well with the business cycle. A significant portion of the business happens in Q4, while a lot of the leave accrued earlier in the year may expire, creating a mismatch between when employees need flexibility and when they are allowed to use it. WFH is also capped, which creates additional challenges for employees who occasionally need to work remotely for extended periods, such as when spending time in their hometown. Previously, employees could use extended WFH when needed, whereas the current policy can effectively force them to consume vacation days instead. This feels unnecessarily restrictive and ultimately provides less flexibility to employees without any obvious business benefit. The office food is another area that could be significantly improved. The company provides lunch on Tuesdays and Thursdays and a Zomato coupon on Wednesdays, but the quality of the office lunch is quite poor. The food is vegetarian, lacks meaningful protein options, and is often bland and reminiscent of basic hostel food. It feels more like a checkbox exercise than a genuine employee benefit. Given that lunch is provided only a couple of days a week, improving the quality and nutritional value would make a meaningful difference to the employee experience. Compensation also lacks consistency and transparency. There doesn't appear to be a clearly defined salary structure or pay bands, and compensation can vary significantly depending on the manager and individual circumstances. This makes it difficult for employees to understand how their compensation is determined or what they need to do to progress. There is also a noticeable lack of transparency in some organizational decisions. In certain areas, middle management does not always provide sufficient technical leadership or add proportional value, leaving senior ICs to compensate for gaps in technical direction and execution.

Pros: Fanatics pays very well when it comes to salary.

Cons: Very cliquish company with a terrible culture.