Paddy Power Betfair reviews

Staff turnover. Paddy Power hires great .Net developers, only to lose them within a very short space of time. Over the last few months, almost all the senior developers on my team quit. This leads to a massive loss of knowledge and poor team morale. If you're not lucky, you could be stuck developing some awful VBA / WinForms application, gaining no valuable skills, and slowly descending into madness, No dedicated support team for legacy .Net applications. The .Net developers on my team are required to work three different support rotas in addition to their regular project work. This involves a week long 9-6 rota, a Saturday rota, and a week long out of hours on-call rota (for minimal compensation). There is a large number of VBA and C# WinForm applications to support, most of which are completely unfamiliar, poorly written and difficult to debug. Documentation is minimal or non-existent. The support work is handled casually, by email, and with none of the tools you would expect a support team to employ. It's difficult, frustrating, chaotic and a constant source of stress. There seems to be no interest from management in creating a dedicated .Net support team. Micro-management and obsession with process. There is a disturbing, dogmatic insistence on following lean / Kanban processes at Paddy Power, even when this proves to be unsuitable for the project. Expect frequent attempts to brainwash you on the merits of Kanban, as well as a constant grilling on whether or not your team is working as quickly as it possibly can. I often felt that management didn't care if my code was a horrible, unmaintainable mess, so long as I followed Kanban principles to create it. Fortunately the developers are passionate about the quality of the products so this does not happen. Politics. At Paddy Power, it's not what you know that counts, it's who you know. My manager was constantly emphasizing the importance of "visibility" to me. Indeed, I was given a poor performance review on the basis of not being visible enough (despite being assured that the code that I developed was perfectly acceptable). Some developers may thrive in this ego-driven environment, but I place a higher value on the quality and maintainability of my code, than on my profile within the organisation. Several other developers and testers, highly skilled and passionate about their work, related the same concerns to me so it seems to be a widespread problem. Paddy Power needs to learn to put substance ahead of style and to give credit where it's due. Constant change / lack of job security. In the last twelve months, there was a re-organisation, followed by a merger with Betfair, and subsequent re-organisation (again). Staff have been advised that there will be redundancies in the coming weeks. Inconsistent working conditions. My department consisted of both Java and .Net developers. The .Net developers are required to work longer hours (9-6 rather than 9-5), and consequently are paid less than their Java-based colleagues. I don't think there's much of a future for .Net development at Paddy Power in terms of new development / interesting projects. They seem much more committed to Java / Scala.

Honestly, where should I start! To begin with there is no leadership. An Irish buffoon who is never at work miraculously appears when people visit from abroad. He goes on stage and pretends it is all rosy in front of these people who are stupid enough to believe him. In the year (almost a year) I have been working there he destroyed everyone's hopes, morale and enthusiasm and all the best staff called it quits and left. Today was one such day and I know of at least another 7 people who will be resigning after his act. This company can get nothing right, not even basics. The rota for example is like russian roulette. I never know when I will get my rota (usually 1.5 weeks in advance if I am lucky) and because of this I cannot plan ahead. Even when I get my rota I am sure this will change without notice so we are all forced to take photos of it just in case it changes before you appear for your next shift. If you appear for your shift and the rota changed without notice, the TLs ask you to respect the revised rota, to leave the office and come back at the time stated on the new rota. They have no consideration for your plans or life. But what really is frustrating is that there is no knowledge within CS. New agents reply to customers as they deem appropriate at the time, getting it wrong half of the time. It is utterly disgusting how some agents can get away with being rude to customers, but makes it worse is that they can get away with it as this buffoon is never there to monitor what really goes on. You can only imagine how many happy customers this multinational comoany has. NOT!!! This behavour irritates customers who then are left with no option to file cases against the company. When the experienced colleagues try to help, they are then shot down and graded badly by management, who do not tolerate anyone trying to live the values of the company. But what values? There is no collaboration, no integrity, no pride in good work. There is is chaos, unhappy agents who do not want to be at work and who damage the comapny constantly. But is it really possible noone is noticing what goes on here? Are the people abroad completely blind to all this? I am sure that if they look at our numbers and quality of replies they should have enough ammunition to kick him out. I can go on forever about how bad it is at Paddy Power Betfair but I am sure that for you to understand what a horrible environment it is you would need to experience it for yourself. Nothing can ever prepare you for this so please please please stay away.