IGT reviews

3.4

62% would recommend to a friend

(2,033 total reviews)

Nick Khin

52% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

IGT has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,033 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IGT 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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2K reviews
4.0
Feb 16, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great games that are more engaging to players than games in other genres. Best in the industry. Big upside when games do well and partners do well. Gambling is everywhere. It will make its way to the US eventually (legally). Once that happens, working in the SF office will be crazy fun. The work we do is equivalent to the work being done in a startup. If this is what excites you, this is the place to be. Additionally, the salaries are not bad. Plus, when you get promoted to a specific level, certain bonuses kick in--decent bonuses.

Cons

Too many re-orgs. Change is fine. Embracing change is fine. Re-orgs every 3 months or less? Probably the biggest joke amongst the teams. This makes it difficult for the teams to not only "FOCUS" on execution but also get behind their leaders. Each new initiative is thought of as a joke because clearly the direction will change--again--in a few months. The other downside is that there are a ton of self-entitled, over-paid employees who think the company's sole job is to make them happy. This is also a joke, because the company's job is to make money! I'm a shareholder. I want the company to make money. It makes it difficult to work there, especially for new employees, because there are too many jaded, unhappy, grumpy, complaining employees. People need to take a step back and re-evaluate their situation and just get real. If they don't want to be at the company, they should just leave.

4.0
Feb 13, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Plenty of opportunites to advance in the company. Good management structrure and exciting to work for. Gained valuable business skill sets to advance career

Cons

There really weren't too many downsides to working for this company. Just the usual excessive paper work and sometimes I had to park along way from my office.

2.0
Feb 8, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Industry Leader - You get to see the projects you work on all over the world. Some teams are great to work on, hope you are lucky. Innovation is starting to come back into IGT's games. If you join IGT now, you will most likely get paid more then the engineers you are working with.

Cons

There is little to no chance for career advancement. There are WAY too many senior engineers at the company. Many of them are not motivated, or are completely inept. They often cause more problems than they solve. A few years back the company decided there were too many managers (which there were) and demoted 2/3 of the managers to staff engineers. This made for a very top heavy engineering staff with many of the top level engineers not doing their job, or not qualified for there job. As a result, mid level engineers find it very difficult to find room to get promotions without leaving the company. Another major problem is the company moved all of its pay scales so that they could attract new talent, but did not adjust th e current staff’s salary to match the new pay scale. Chances are if you get hired at IGT you will be making more then someone with the same title. However; if they are still there they are oblivious, or on their way out. IGT has a lack of respect for engineering talent. The culture is "if you don't like it, we can find another engineer to do it”. This is causing many talented engineers to flee the company, leaving behind bunch inexperienced or inept engineers. I sat in a meeting where a director told a group of engineers, "If IGT can hire 3 engineers in China for the cost of one in the U.S., that just makes sense.” Senior management is deaf to the employees. 4 months ago we got our annual employee satisfaction survey results, the results showed wide spread dissatisfaction with the company. Senior management ignored the results and started focusing on the few good points from the survey. It was a real missed opportunity to make IGT a better place to work. Beware of the non-compete at IGT. It makes it VERY difficult to find another job in Nevada, or in gaming period. They like to attach it to your annual Stock Award. Many employees don’t even know they accepted it with their “bonus”. Many engineers have stated that were it not for the non-compete, they would leave IGT.

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