WMS Gaming Reviews

Former Employee – worked at WMS Gaming as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – WMS offers a friendly, relaxed environment for all employees. They take the "work hard, play hard" motto to heart with a lot of great perks for their employees, including a willingness to assist employees that have gone through hardships in their lives such as floods, tornadoes, and fire. The atmosphere is young and modern, making it a fantastic place to work for people under 40. Compensation is generally market value and the company is constantly striving to make itself better. The Chicago campus is amazing with the newest technology, in-house cafe that serves good food, a modern gym, and several gaming systems for breaks.

Cons – As with most major companies, WMS has issues with fully embracing change that will improve their products/operations and management tends to fall back on the older ways of doing things because that is what they are familiar with. Contractors, while treated well overall, are not invited to most company events, which can create a division between contractors and employees in certain departments. Many departments play the blame-game, shifting responsibility for failures onto other departments or even worse, refusing to fix the problems that have been pointed out and will result in product failure in testing.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at WMS Gaming full-time

Pros – Good work culture. Good team.

Cons – A little unorganized in a few ways

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at WMS Gaming full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Company empowers employees to take action. Leaders listen to employees and act on their feedback. Very great work benefits and environment. People are generally respectful and talented.

Cons – Workload can be intense at times. Not everything is perfect but company works to consistently improve.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at WMS Gaming full-time for more than a year

Pros – The company is great. They care about your fitness. They have a great cafeteria. They generally want you to be happy.

Cons – There are way too many managers. I'm not kidding. There will sometimes be 5-10 developers to a project and 30 managers. Not a lot of work or innovation ever gets through.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at WMS Gaming full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Flexible timing
More time to execute projects

Cons – Salary, Promotion opportunity is less, Stuck with one technology, still uses dated tech

Advice to Senior Management – Nothin

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at WMS Gaming full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great people to work with, exciting times to be in the gaming industry. Offers a good benefits package, with encouragement and rewards for wellness.

Cons – Salary and bonus lag due to tough times in the casino/gaming industry. Work hours can be demanding. Schedules often set before work estimation.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at WMS Gaming full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Nothing special to say about

Cons – Managers treat employees as slaves

Advice to Senior Management – Give free hand to employees

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at WMS Gaming full-time for more than a year

Pros – good environment, nice salaries, good games

Cons – not that much bad things here , nice place to work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at WMS Gaming full-time

Pros – Great work environment, facilities and projects, art culture. Many opportunities to learn and improve as artist. Good cafe, workout facilities, basketball gyms, and new building.

Cons – I don't have much negative to say. It's a great place to work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at WMS Gaming full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great benefits, good environment. Interesting technology.

Cons – Management is a big "buddy club." They are always right and the employees are always wrong. HR protects the management and the company will not get rid of even the worst ones. They rarely promote from within unless you are a brownnosing yes man. Company is getting very top heavy and it will be their demise.

Advice to Senior Management – See cons above.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company