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Extremely Poor Management and Dysfunctional Culture in the Betting & Gaming Division

Senior Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Fanatics for 2 years
May 15, 2026
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Unlimited PTO can be a pro if you have a good manager.

Cons
  1. Leadership in the Betting & Gaming division lacks professionalism, sound judgment, and experience managing teams effectively.

  2. Certain managers create disorganized teams with little oversight and lose large parts of teams, while remaining employees are left handling excess work without HR actually doing anything about it. HRBPs are not even aware enough to address questions around this issue in meetings.

  3. HR often ignores complaints and fails to address bullying, favoritism, or exclusion. High turnover and the loss of senior employees have significantly reduced team stability and institutional knowledge.

  4. The workplace culture includes favoritism, politics, backstabbing, and instances of sexism, racism, and nepotism that leadership does not adequately address.

  5. Employees frequently perform work above their level without promotion or pay adjustment. Compensation is below market despite heavy workloads and chronic understaffing.

  6. Tech debt is ignored until major failures occur. Engineering teams are severely understaffed due to repeated layoffs, and burnout is common with poor on-call support and little work-life balance. There are constant SEV-1 issues, and everything is on fire all the time.

Advice to Management
  1. Replace or retrain unqualified managers and ensure they provide timely feedback and uphold basic professionalism instead of suddenly letting employees go to save face.
  2. Stop cutting individual contributors while retaining ineffective leadership.

Take accountability for the toxic culture, broken processes, constantly failing systems, and ongoing understaffing.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
1.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
4.0
Career Opportunities
1.0
Compensation and Benefits
2.0
Senior Management
1.0

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