High growth, Poor Management - Anonymous employee DraftKings Employee Review
2.0
Jun 12, 2019
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 1 year
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Opportunities to work on challenging projects and learn a lot
Cons
* Micro-management by execs and Middle managers that stifles creativity and drive, leading employees to leave
* Lack of employee recognition and empowerment
* No long term vision and strategy
DraftKings Response
7y
Thanks for leaving your feedback. We're happy you are exposed to challenging projects and learning a lot from them. We are making a concerted effort to train our people managers as they are the lifeblood of our organization.
We would love to learn your thoughts for improving our employee recognition program. We currently have our DK All-stars and the Bravo slack channel where peer-to-peer recognition is exchanged a lot every day. If you have any questions or concerns about our strategy or long-term vision, your direct manager is a great resource. We thank you again for your feedback and contributions to DraftKings.
Jason
Truly a great company to work for. Personal development is a huge focus and this is a company that you will truly grow at. Having worked or had friends that worked at at a most of the big Boston tech companies, can confidently say DK will both treat you better and help you become more than any of the others
Cons
A lot will be expected of you and the company does emphasize performance. But it will give you the support to get it
The pros about this place is that if you want a quiet area to work when you do work there out of 3 days out of the week that they have you work there. At least that's what it was when I worked there I don't know if they've changed it. Then you work 2 days at home. It's very quiet. Most the time there is nobody there. They will train you and help you but you will eventually have to be able to do it on your own.
Cons
If you switch over to departments don't depend on the company keeping you. If you mess up. The company was literally going through a buyout with the lottery company when I was working there and everything was crashing. So I got let go because there were a lot of errors and the system that they upgraded to was worse than the one that we worked on. So basically if anything happens with the systems just make sure that you know what you're doing and that you catch up on everything.