Company details

HEADCOUNT

25-99

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Technology & Digital

WEBSITE

https://www.playerdata.com

About the company

PlayerData is an Edinburgh-based sports tech company that builds wearable GPS and sensor products plus software for performance tracking. The product line focuses on making training and game-day monitoring practical for teams and coaches, with data captured during sessions and surfaced quickly for decisions. Public product materials position PlayerData across multiple sports and levels, from academies to elite programmes. The company also publishes behind-the-scenes writing on engineering hiring and early team-building.

Locations and presence

PlayerData is Edinburgh-headquartered and has a strong UK footprint. Public hiring and market activity also points to international expansion, including North America.

Palpable Score

55.0

/ 100

PlayerData has credible early-career entry points through internships and at least some roles that look accessible without a long track record, plus a refreshingly explicit hiring-process write-up for engineers. The limiting factor is consistency: evidence of repeat junior hiring and verified early-career progression is patchy, and some candidate and employee feedback flags uneven management support.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

11.0

/ 20

The company has run internships and publicly discussed intern work, which creates a real “first role in industry” on-ramp.
PlayerData has hosted software engineering internships and promoted internship opportunities, suggesting early-career hiring exists beyond one-off work experience.
The company’s publicly visible hiring does not show a steady drumbeat of 0–3 year “junior/associate” roles across functions, so access looks occasional rather than recurring.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

13.0

/ 20

The company publishes a step-by-step engineering hiring process, including interview stages and the tooling used.
PlayerData sets expectations that the engineering take-home should be small and time-bounded, which is a meaningful fairness signal for applicants with limited spare time.
The company also has at least one detailed candidate account describing an overly heavy task burden and unclear role scope, which drags down confidence in consistency across teams.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

11.0

/ 20

The company describes interns shipping real projects, which can be excellent learning if paired with coaching and review.
PlayerData’s own intern write-up highlights interns working with limited supervision, which can accelerate growth but can also mean uneven support depending on manager capacity.
The company has mixed employee feedback about leadership and day-to-day pressure, so support signals do not read as reliably repeatable for early-career hires.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

10.7

/ 20

The company has advertised at least one role with a clear GBP salary figure, which is stronger than the usual “competitive” vagueness.
PlayerData has compensation sentiment that appears mixed across public feedback, so the market positioning is hard to pin down for graduates.
The company does not consistently publish pay ranges across roles in a way an early-career candidate could rely on, which caps the score.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

9.3

/ 20

The company has some employee accounts describing growth and learning, but there is not enough volume to treat that as a dependable early-career outcome pattern.
PlayerData has public signals of workload and leadership friction from other employee accounts, which raises retention risk for people early in their career who need stable coaching.
The company’s LinkedIn presence supports the rough team size, but it does not provide clear, verifiable early-career promotion pathways or repeated junior cohorts.