IGT Software Developer reviews

Very odd management group with a lot of hand-picked and unqualified directors and vice presidents making huge decisions, often from remote locations. several of these people who are making $300K+ are working from home. there is hostility from management if you are a "gaming industry" person, they seem to dislike people with this knowledge, which is very strange and ironic. Beyond this internal issues, there is the elephant-in-the room which is that the slot machine is a buggy-whip product that is becoming less popular and less relevant every day. if you look at a slot machine doesnt it look like a 30 year old thing? people under 50 for the most part have zero interest in this product -- which is a big problem. The company also relies too heavily on a dated model of licensing old movies and tv shows for content -- this strategy is 30 years old and was good in the 90s but now everyone does it and players dont care and casino operators dont want it anymore, it makes their nice floors look tacky. there is something about going to wynn for example .. if you see some wheel of fortune machine it just looks out of place (tacky vs classy of wynn atmosphere) .. Young people -- how are we going to get them to gamble? There is ZERO thought on this big subject, which is shocking -- the company strategy seems to be hoping the 60-70 year old woman will not age. Executives dont walk casino floors, they dont play the slots machines either. i dont think they like them either! I guess they dont care because they know they will not be long term involved with IGT. if you are an employee or own stock you think different but they dont care. IGT is what happens when management and stock holder have interests not in line. I think this company is doomed.

-You have to be friend of managers to get a career promotion. Promotion is not based on your skills. -No culture of career growth. -Underpaid Job. -No salary increases. -There is a very old school, some of the managers are the worst managers and leaders I have worked with, they only take care of their own interests and career. -No work/life balance. Sometimes you have to work more than 12 hours per day, and weekends, with no extra pay, that means you have to work for free (crazy). They promise you a "Building Excellence", that is a bonus that some of the workers receive at the end of a project, but you have to work many hours to receive that (60-80 hours per week), that means that you have problems with your family. Workers that receive that bonus are not all the workers in the project, so even though you have worked many hours in a project, it is probably that you do not receive the bonus. -You have to be on-call always. You can receive Hotline calls to attend issues at anytime, night, weekends, holidays. -You cannot be updated with the most recent technologies. They have standard products built many years ago, they only adapt these products to the new projects.