Terrible management & organisation - Devops Engineer Sportradar Employee Review

2.0
21 Apr 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A lot of great people. Good pay. Share scheme if you stay long enough. Some interesting projects going on.

Cons

A mix of management, culture, and a bad tribe model. The tribe model doesn't work, senior management don't know what goes on in the tribes or what the tribes even want. There's constant conflict between tribe owners and senior management, and DevOps personnel don't really fall into the DevOps tribe or the tribe they work for. It feels like DevOps are in no man's land, and no one knows who is responsible for them, or wants to take responsibility when something happens or needs to be done. Something else that keeps coming up is the lack or team work and communication between HR and Engineering. Both sides have different agendas and push back on each other on a lot of things, games are played by both sides to get what they want because they know the other side won't agree to it, communication is incredibly late and some things just aren't communicated at all.

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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

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2.0
23 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

There are some very smart, very strong team members. However, those individuals are leaving in droves.

Cons

The executive leadership team, especially Carsten have lost their way. Increasing demands on staff, while cutting team staffing across all functions, forcing 5 days in office without thinking through a plan and how it will effect families, and lack of raises the last few years has created a very stressed and overworked culture. This company has fully shifted into an "appease the shareholders" phase of cost cutting, do more with less phase which is having a large effect on the quality of talent. There is a constant shift of senior leadership with changing priorities when the actual fix to most problems are to just add low level staff to do work. This place is overrun with Sr leaders demanding KPI/KRI updates, sitting in meetings, and not much time spent doing actual work.

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