DAZN Reviews

Priorities change every week and is not clear what is most important. 100+ projects for one quarter, soon will be more projects than engineers. Projects are prioritised not basing on data but on what someone from the management wants. Lack of clear communication from the management. Not taking care about DAZN customers, only about profit. Not doing any innovation or experimentation. Saving money on everything, no benefits, no budget for anything. Pensions cut. Forced way of working within Engineering, not being Agile any more. Moving most of engineering teams to India to being outsourced. Not enough resources to deliver projects but unrealistic expectations and delivery dates taken from nowhere, not being consulted.

The people I talk about above are being pushed away, mainly to competitors in the media space, by complete and utter car crash C suite management. I don't even believe SVP/EVP are part of this, it's even bigger. We want to become profitable, there's no hiding that. But firing staff in waves upon waves upon waves is just highlighting the instability at the top of the business. We've all been given "clear goals" of which these "clear goals" are complex, ever changing and in my opinion only in the best interests of the CEO/CTO personal bank accounts. DAZN had some of the most forward thinking leaders which we've let go, people who will most likely go to these competitors and make their subsequent business triple the money we'd make here and it's all down to authoritarian micro-management. Flexible working has been the subject of major discussion this week with the CEO mandating Monday's back in the office globally, along with "regular" attendance. I personally really enjoyed him conveying this message from Qatar, just the small matter of 4,193miles from the Hammersmith office.