Could be good but ruined by oncall. - Anonymous employee DraftKings Employee Review

1.0
11 Aug 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Majority of people are friendly and helpful. - Dependent on team, some technologies are cutting edge. - Good benefits. - Particularly good stock.

Cons

- Oncall is brutal. You will often be paged for things you can't fix or prevent, be expected to respond AND determine user impact within 10 minutes at any time day or night, and receive no additional remuneration (including TOIL). - Dependent on team, you may be stuck with very legacy and long out of support tech. - Bureaucratic, slow and messy processes. - You may need to obtain external licenses, a convoluted process that is not made clear before joining and not supported well by the business. - It can be a morally difficult industry.

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5.0
7 May 2026
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Pros

Great culture and office perks. The people are really nice as well.

Cons

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2.0
28 May 2026
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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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