Sports retail is an interesting market to be in. Managing League stores is very fun. Discounts are a plus if you're a sports fan.
Standard benefits package:
Has dynamic time off, but it is barely used because of the amount of work and the team sizing. It seemed as if I was always on call.
Bro culture.
Top-down driven tech initiatives.
Silos.
Toxic leadership during outages.
Does not pay as much as other Silicon Valley companies.
The Tech team at Fanatics is one of the best I've seen. They really care about the mission.
The leadership does not seem to be listening. There is no company training, barely any documentation (if any exists, it is hard to find), and lots of cross-team fighting as well as fighting inside silos.
Not a whole lot of diversity in the higher levels of the Tech Division, mostly male, with not too much racial diversity.
Two coding questions. The interviewer skipped straight to the coding questions without any introduction or behavioral questions. One was about designing an E-Commerce API, and the other was a data structure/algorithm question. I got the algorithm qu
Phone call by hiring manager, first interview by engineering manager, onsite interview by principal engineer, senior software engineer, and a few other managers from the other team. The interview went on for about 5 to 6 days. I was also asked some
Terrible candidate experience. Had a call with the recruiter, then scheduled the tech screen. The morning of the tech screen, I got an email saying that it was moved by a couple hours. I couldn't make the new time and asked to reschedule. The recruit
Two coding questions. The interviewer skipped straight to the coding questions without any introduction or behavioral questions. One was about designing an E-Commerce API, and the other was a data structure/algorithm question. I got the algorithm qu
Phone call by hiring manager, first interview by engineering manager, onsite interview by principal engineer, senior software engineer, and a few other managers from the other team. The interview went on for about 5 to 6 days. I was also asked some
Terrible candidate experience. Had a call with the recruiter, then scheduled the tech screen. The morning of the tech screen, I got an email saying that it was moved by a couple hours. I couldn't make the new time and asked to reschedule. The recruit