Aristocrat Technologies Reviews

Pros

Great working products, culture is innovative, talented people and great overall company vision that is looking to improve continually every month.

Cons

Too much bureaucracy and risk avoidance, fun but flat at times with a need to reinvigorate staff morale and direct vision

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees, change processes to make things easier, don't be afraid of change and taking on the risk rewarding projects

Pros

Salary is just above average

Cons

Communication is non existent. People are busy hiding and pointing fingers

Advice to Senior Management

Fire yourself

Pros

The people are fantastic, there are some incredibly talented people working at Aristocrat who make it enjoyable going to work everyday. Its great working for an Australian company that has end-to-end functions from product design to manufacturing to sales & service. The North Ryde building is new and there's free parking.

Cons

Its not as exciting as working in the city, but the commuting is much better.

Pros

Good benefits and pay.
Generally good work-life balance.

Cons

If you have an accent or are in with the right people (read: cliques), you'll have more opportunities for advancement within U.S. and abroad.

Pros

a. Ok compensation.
b. Flexible Timings.

Cons

a. Less Career Enhancement opportunities
b. No good work and mostly porting.

Pros

Good pay and benefits.
Better exposure to the gaming industry because company is a larger player.

Cons

Always playing catch up with competitors.
Sr. Management decisions are poor.
Indian Development Center is a disaster, U.S. teams always coming to the rescue.

Advice to Senior Management

Fire yourself. Absent that, please hire more people that actually have gaming or casino experience. Also, new U.S graduates are just as competent and will have a higher probability of making the job a career than Indian consultants.

Pros

You can manage your personal and professional life easily.

Cons

Management decisions take time to implement things.

Pros

great work life balance
very talented people to work with
generally a fun place to work
people are overall pretty nice and welcoming
great insight into gaming

Cons

two things help you move up: having an accent and being a man. Throw in being a caucasion and you are golden.
lots and lots of people get overlooked regularly. It's the same people all the time who get recognized.
Horrible silo problem - poor communication problems between departments. They've been working on it, at least.
Morale sank a couple of years ago...thus far efforts to correct aren't working as well as they could.
No hope for growth in most areas. Where you come in is where you'll stay.
Never heard of anyone getting an amazing raise here.

Advice to Senior Management

Notice your people -- all of them. Even the little guys. It's the difference between retaining great talent throughout the organization and consistent turnover. Spend less time bragging about what new top talent we got (leaving everyone to wonder how much they must be making) and more time nuturing the talent you already have.

Pros

My immediate boss does not micro-manage, which is good. I have a lot of freedom to complete my work the way I feel appropriate, so long as I meet my deadlines and do good work. There are a lot of employee functions, which I know a lot of companies do not offer. Aristocrat also does a lot for the community.

Cons

Highly political environment - not everyone has an opportunity to move around, even if you are qualified, and there is little emphasis on building stronger employees and developing skills. It almost seems as though they would prefer to dump you and hire someone else than invest in educating and training the staff.

Advice to Senior Management

C-level is doing a pretty good job, but senior management still has a lot of old-school thinkers. Dump them if you want to change the culture--culture shift comes with changing your mindset and humans don't change without a really compelling reason to do so.

Pros

If you can speak the political language you can fail to the top

Cons

If you want to improve anything make sure you can do it alone and others don't need to contribute

Advice to Senior Management

Plan ahead instead of making everything an emergency