Good Pay, Poor Management and Company Values - Senior Software Engineer DraftKings Employee Review

2.0
5 Oct 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The salary and RSU benefits are great

Cons

The On-Call hours are strenuous, the management is largely unsupportive, and despite the company priding itself on selling sports entertainment the primary internal drive is to push users to lower win-rate bets such as SGPs.

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DraftKings Response
8mo
Thank you for your feedback. We're glad to hear the compensation and RSU benefits have been a positive, but we're sorry that your experience with on-call demands and management support has been challenging. We're working to strengthen team support and ensure our values are reflected consistently across the organization. We appreciate your candor, which helps inform where we need to improve.

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Pros

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.

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