Aristocrat reviews

4.0

100% would recommend to a friend

(868 total reviews)
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Aristocrat has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 868 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Aristocrat employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Artes y entretenimiento industry (3.9 stars).

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868 reviews
1.0
Nov 7, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible Working (although there are rumours that we're only getting to work from home because we've been grandfathered in. Seems new hires don't get the same luxuries or opportunities) Autonomy (although when one does express concern, it's swept under the rug and ignored) New Office Location coming in the new year (looks nice but does explain why there's no money for head counts, promotions, raises or bonuses)

Cons

There are members of Upper Senior Leadership, particularly those whose background was at NeoGames, who can only be described as bullies. They belittle and demean, set ridiculous targets and then demand to know why they weren't hit. When serious concerns are raised around employees mental health and wellbeing they're brushed off, and said employees are told to toughen up and just keep pushing. Bonuses haven't been paid out for over a year; they advertise that we get 10% quarterly bonuses but it's a myth at this point. Bonuses are tied to hitting the aforementioned impossible targets. There are no opportunities for career progression or advancement. Every request for a raise, promotion, training, anything is dragged out and postponed and delayed. They make up bad excuses for why things aren't moving, then make you feel bad for following up. This has been corroborated by many colleagues and peers across the departments. The culture and vibe is really off lately. Morale is down, and no one seems to care about picking people up. Everyone is depressed and struggling to cope with the pressures. New head count is promised over months but then nothing ever materialises. Meanwhile expectations continue to grow and we the people continue to get trodden into the ground when we don't hit the targets. Whilst we do currently have the opportunity to work remotely, it's looked down on and members of senior leadership have been heard saying that remote workers shouldn't get the same support or engagement as those making it into the office twice a week, despite the fact that only 20% or so actually do that. Aristocrat have released a new plan for the next five years, but produced nothing to go alongside to explain how we're supposed to achieve all this. Just more impossible targets and painful months ahead.

2.0
May 1, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Some good people to work with. Flexible hours. Probably the most clever MSSQL database architects and developers outside of Microsoft itself. Pay was good.

Cons

This is specific to Systems organization: - Too heavily reliant on closed source technology (ie. Microsoft/VMWare). - Completely refuses to use modern software architecture. No cloud-based technology. No open source technology. AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes? Never heard of them. - No innovation and no hopes to build technical skills to further career. - Most engineers wouldn't know what a 12-factor app was if one fell out of the sky, landed on their face and started to wiggle. - Purchased horrible software platform riddled with technical debt and wedged it into their already ancient software platform. - In 2016 attempted to layoff half the Systems org and ramp up development in India with inferior engineers. Eventually gave them keys to the kingdom while telling domestic engineer's there jobs were safe. - Product Management (Sales?) - Commits Systems engineers to unrealistic schedules and unmaintainable products. - Employs no business analysts. - Sprints were 4-6 weeks long. - Morale is at all time low. - Culture in the department lends itself to talking smack behind peoples backs.

1.0
Apr 18, 2018

Good but toxic?!

Recommend
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Pros

Good wage, fairly stable job if you are skillful enough and can sell your soul.

Cons

Full of corporate politics. Management are disorganized and will make you work extra for it. People will push you down for their own gain. Lots of bullying

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