The middle and upper management are driving this company in the ground, and that is not an understatement! The middle/upper management only hire and promote people that they know or that kiss their behind. They do not promote based off of skill, intelligence, and seniority. Thus, a lot of highly qualified people are doing menial tasks; and adversely there are a lot of inexperienced people in great positions. The tier-1 Enterprise experience looks very great on your resume. Therefore a lot of great workers use this company as the stepping-stone to bigger companies.
If you are going to work here, MAKE SURE YOU DO YOUR OWN MARKET RESEARCH ON THE SALARY RANGES FOR YOUR AREA! THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. Fanatics will pimp you if they can. For example, a SharePoint administrator easily makes over $100,000. Fanatics will find someone with SharePoint administrator experience, hire them as a lower job title like "System Analyst" (which pays at most $65,000) and then pay them a lesser salary while getting them to do specialty work. They will not pay you what you are worth. The human resources know this, however they do nothing about it.
Another bad issue at this company is they hire smart, lazy people. Everyone wants to get paid top salaries for not doing their job. The middle management does not hold their departments accountable for their work. When an issue of severity arises everyone will point the finger at each other instead of taking ownership and do their job.
Fanatics constantly lies to their employees and doesn't value their people. They will promise you the world and under-deliver every time. Whatever they promise you in your interview, GET IT IN WRITING FROM THE MANAGER BEFORE YOU ACCEPT THE OFFER. Whatever duties they want you to perform get that in writing also. Fanatics will under hire people just to save money on the back end, and work their teams to death on a bare-bones budget. Get the highest salary you can fresh out the gate because you will more than likely not get a raise for years.
Fanatics has no direction. Every work day is chaos because the company has grown so fast in such a short time. So, expect the middle management to change direction and focus multiple times a month.
If you are going to work here, please do your research. I would only recommend working here for no more than 5 years and then moving on to a more organized company. There are much better companies out there than the circus called Fanatics.
