lack of clear direction & cohesion in N.A. with European leadership after going public - Senior Software Engineer Sportradar Employee Review

3.0
Nov 2, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, reasonable work/life balance (on-call expectations excluded - see below), family friendly, and a fun group (especially if you love sports). Some decent opportunities to work on more greenfield and even cutting edge technology (if you are placed right - see below on the legacy issue).

Cons

As with almost all software companies 5 years or older - maintenance of legacy stacks, especially after M&A into the bigger firm. Typical problems of a large corporation after going public: re-orgs, middle manager switch-ups all over the place, build this, tear that down, leadership ghosting... it feels like an attempt at generating something amazing from controlled chaos, but in my experience, the outputs from this process are not gratifying to the engineers on the ground who feel push & pulled to deliver the actual results. Biggest con: on-call requirements on a pretty high rotation. I was 24/7 every five weeks, sometimes supporting software I never worked on and had little knowledge of how to fix if something major broke, and they want it fixed NOW. Second biggest con: compensation calculation for remote workers based on Minneapolis cost of living, which is significantly lower than some of the regions they hire remote workers out of (including mine on the West coast). It seems most other major firms adjust their pay rate based on the states they are hiring in, and they need to figure that out or just stop hiring from those locations.

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5.0
Feb 2, 2026
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Pros

Very flexible with scheduling. Nice bonus job that you can do after work. Not too difficult and if you’re already watching the game you might as well be getting paid for it. Supervisors and management are great and schedule very well.

Cons

Hard to get a lot of hours after the month of November. Guaranteed to work at least part of a Saturday almost every week.

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3.0
Apr 20, 2026
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Pros

Awesome job for sports fanatics to make good money on the side scoring games, they cover so many sports you will have plenty of opportunities

Cons

very poor communication, international payments take a fee, poor software compared to other sports data companies, long training process with a lot of technical difficulties incurred

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