Aristocrat reviews

3.3

53% would recommend to a friend

(1,210 total reviews)
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Trevor Croker

61% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Aristocrat has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,210 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 Kunst, Unterhaltung & Freizeit industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
3.0
Aug 24, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The company definitely takes care of their employees and offer a lot of perks as well as decent benefits. Compensation is pretty great. Co-workers are usually pretty nice and help whenever they can. Hours are ok depending on the project.

Cons

Management is a mess here mainly due to the fact that there are so many chefs in the kitchen. There's project managers, senior techs, your supervisor and some others that will have you going in multiple directions. Rules that are established will be kicked to the curb and when called out on something, they'll deny it and say that it was explained slightly different. The job could be so much easier if the rules that THEY ESTABLISHED were followed and everyone was on the same page. Communication is definitely lacking. Work/life balance will vary. Sometimes you'll be working 4 hours or less and have the day to yourself and other you could be working 10-14 and will have to stay overnight at a hotel. There are some occassions where you'll have to drive 3-5 hours for a 30 minute fix. There will be times you'll be away from home for weeks. There are a ton of apps that you'll need to do your job optimally. You'll need to attend zoom meetings every couple weeks. Co-workers, the Service Center and customers will be calling your personal phone whenever. If your state has MSP, be ready to give an ETA on when you can make it if they call, even if it's 2am.

2.0
May 1, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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