FanDuel reviews

There's been several reorgs in the devops/platform engineering part of the business in the last couple of years. The cycle is consistent. New management gains political favour, hires more people, shuffles the org chart and adds projects which don't address real issues. These fail, management is replaced and the cycle repeats. After several loops the org is bloated with technical people, insular management layers and projects which collectively produce little value. The latest cycle added ~10 product managers, likely tasked with keeping goals aligned with real org requirements. But the issues haven't changed, they're just repackaged and presented in a more disconnected, positive format. People in technical roles don't seem to be able to disrupt these cycles either. I've failed, and watched others fail, to redirect effort towards high value work and known issues but management naturally rewards on people who enable them. I assume the product people are in the same position.

Engineering is isolated from it's CTO by a layer of non-technical people at VP level. They're not bad people, but it makes for a difficult experience and restricts potential career growth opportunities once you're near the top of the Engineering tree. Salaries are decent, but very widely variable within a role - if you don't want to negotiate hard you are likely to do worse than colleagues more interested in fighting for more.