ESPN Software Developer reviews

4.0

99% would recommend to a friend

(10 total reviews)
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James Pitaro

99% approve of CEO

99% positive business outlook

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5.0
Jun 19, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Get to work on really interesting problems related to sports! Great place to learn skills and develop relationships with really smart people. Small teams usually which means more opportunities to step up and take on more responsibilities.

Cons

Location of the headquarters is in Bristol, CT, where there isn't much to do. Hard to recruit good talent when having to sell a move to Connecticut.

5.0
Nov 1, 2015

Dream Job

Recommend
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Pros

For sports fans, working for ESPN is heaven. The Walt Disney Company give all the employees great benefits. Flexible working hours for salaried employees.

Cons

As a part of an extremely large corporation (Walt Disney), ESPN frequently has mass layoffs. ESPN does not handle h1b matters effectively.

3.0
Jan 9, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Relaxed work environment. A lot of talented people doing interesting work (though w/ so many groups and products it might depend on where you land). Opportunity to work on highly visible products.

Cons

Every worker seems to have two managers, each of whom have two managers above them and so on. All the groups are silo'd w/ little coordination between the groups. Lots of attention is paid to distinct upcoming events but little interest in lessons learned after the events, process improvement or big picture system improvement. Lots of dependency on old/proprietary technology which has little to no documentation or support. Pay seems to be lower than industry average for the privilege of working for the world wide leader but this is often relative to a variety of factors.

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