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3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(1,432 total reviews)
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Peter Jackson

71% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Paddy Power Betfair has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,432 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Paddy Power Betfair employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Artes y entretenimiento industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
2.0
Oct 2, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Culture was very friendly in the beginning. Solid company. Lots of interesting projects.

Cons

Too much politics, bad management. Very hard to innovate, you need to struggle for a long time and go against a lot of people to do anything new. Business has too much power over technical decisions. Developers are not trusted and treated as lazy, untrustworthy employees. Salary updates and performance reviews based on quotas.

1.0
Apr 29, 2015

Poor strategy, lots of pressure and lack of focus

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The pay is good, benefits are decent and the Hammersmith building is by the water, so if you ever get the time you can take a stroll down the Thames. There's also a ping pong table and beer Fridays which are great. Oh, and there's also a subsidized canteen where you can get a decent meal on the cheap.

Cons

The company lacks strategy and has poor leadership and middle management. Because of that everybody's pulling in different directions and one team has no idea what the others are doing or they don't care. The company lacks focus. They want to do too many things at once and because of this projects advance very slowly have lots of dependencies and a lot of times they end up half baked or abandoned. So next person who touches that will most likely break something because there are no processes in place and nothing gets documented. There is a very high turnover, and even people at the top leave very fast or disappear over night ;) This causes major knowledge and ownership issues, and it's one of the main reasons why middle management is so poor. There is high pressure to deliver and because of this people pass the buck over email all the time just to give the impression that they've done something. You end up with tens and hundreds of emails in your inbox every day but 99% of them are just noise or deflecting problems, with no real desire to take ownership or actually fix something that's broken. The company does performance reviews every 3 months, which can get political and have very little to do with what you've delivered in the past period. Instead of helping people get better at their job and creating achievable goals, the reviews put useless pressure on employees and allow the managers to be manipulative and perform subjective reviews. I would say don't get a job here unless you're one of the people who just like to pass the buck and then complain about things not getting done :)

1.0
Mar 31, 2015

The worst management I have ever experienced

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The pay and benefits are excellent, the vast majority of people here are great to work with, the business is making huge amounts of money and is growing well, the Hammersmith office is a nice place to work.

Cons

There is a deeply engrained culture of never planning ahead and leaving everything to the last minute, everything is always rushed and this causes high stress and a low quality of work across the business. Management do not act on advice given (repeatedly) to them and there is no accountability. The staff attrition rate in Betfair is breathtaking, the vast majority of those I have worked with haven't lasted longer than 18 months. HR used to review this once a year, they have now had to step this up to four times a year because of the sheer amount of people leaving, this should speak volumes to anyone considering becoming an employee.

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