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Ainsworth Game Technology

Is this your company?

Worst game company to work for in Vegas. - Artist Ainsworth Game Technology Employee Review

1.0
Mar 1, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

They once rented a hot dog truck and gave everyone a ticket for a free hotdog.

Cons

Management cannot use industry standard programs such as Photoshop, After Effects and Perforce. Art management and math/game design pressures employees to steal art from other companies. HR and higher management are aware of this. CEO has stated to the entire studio that he hates Vegas and wishes he hadn't taken the job. Math/Game design holds the entire studio hostage by having no interest in producing work. Not a single workable math model was made during my time there. That said, the younger members of the math department seem to see the job as a "Pipeline to Aristocrat". I'm not sure if they realize putting "theoretical math" on their resumes won't impress anyone outside of Ainsworth in this industry. The senior math department members are not much better, as they clearly spend no time training new hires in their department or even requiring them to do work. One of them refuses to even speak with female team members (if there are any left. I believe the majority of women left the team last year). In fact last year alone management and HR chased off between 20-30% of their entire studio with bad practice and no real support or change being made. Which explains all of their recent new job listings.

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5.0
May 4, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

supportive and friendly talented people flexible ways of working

Cons

too much bureaucracy and red tape

2.0
May 12, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Good people in game development that are passionate about their jobs. - Cool office.

Cons

- Lackluster pay way below industry averages. - Upper management was uninterested in the company at the time and just wanted revolving door worker bees to figure out all of their problems for them. - Physical based hardware was severely outdated and had no discussions with software team before making pivotal decisions to stay competitive causing all sorts of problems. - Daily headaches working around a mountain of tech debt in proprietary tools, which is eventually shipped to production after tedious QA.

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