Fanatics Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.3

60% would recommend to a friend

(36 total reviews)
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Michael Rubin

44% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Fanatics with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 36 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Fanatics is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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36 reviews
2.0
Aug 29, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Decent work life balance, Easy going co-workers.

Cons

If you are expecting to grow your career here forget about it unless you are good at politics. People you know are more important than what you can do. There is a severe lack in transparency when it comes to employee evaluations. Most good engineers leave since they do not see any challenging opportunities. The scale of the problems isn't large enough to challenge your abilities. A lot of the projects are hacks for the short term that may never be reevaluated. Personal growth isn't encouraged and you have to fight for budgets to attend conferences.

4.0
Nov 3, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting projects and technology (Elasticsearch, Couchbase, PostgreSQL). Some very smart and talented developers and QA folks. Reasonably fun work environment.

Cons

Lack of accountability and "blamestorming". We used to call it "Fantics", because there's no "a" (for accountability) in Fanatics. Moving lots of tech to the west coast under new leadership. CEO and CTO seem like great people.

5.0
Oct 21, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great startup work environment and fast response to queries.

Cons

Takes time for engineering staff to get access to various development related tools. At most three days.

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