Fun industry
Free food on Saturdays
Very flexible with PTO
Cons
Low pay, below industry standard
High turnover (traders quitting)
Old school management with little sports trading knowledge
Underqualified traders promoted, very political
DraftKings Response
3y
Thank you for providing candid feedback on the Trading team. We certainly don't take these concerns lightly, and we have directly taken them to leadership to continue working on them. We highly value our Trading department and provide ample time and training, so everyone has the necessary tools to perform well in their jobs and develop their careers. We also strongly suggest reaching out to your HRBP to discuss these issues.
The pros about this place is that if you want a quiet area to work when you do work there out of 3 days out of the week that they have you work there. At least that's what it was when I worked there I don't know if they've changed it. Then you work 2 days at home. It's very quiet. Most the time there is nobody there. They will train you and help you but you will eventually have to be able to do it on your own.
Cons
If you switch over to departments don't depend on the company keeping you. If you mess up. The company was literally going through a buyout with the lottery company when I was working there and everything was crashing. So I got let go because there were a lot of errors and the system that they upgraded to was worse than the one that we worked on. So basically if anything happens with the systems just make sure that you know what you're doing and that you catch up on everything.