Not what it used to be - Manager IGT Employee Review

2.0
Feb 2, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Steady pay. Relatively easy work. Decent life/work balance. Company used to pay towards continued education. Employees who have been around for a long time take care of new comers. Executive management works hard on lowering the debt inherited from previous regimes.

Cons

Diminishing benefits year after year (profit sharing is gone, insignificant bonuses, RSUs are gone, medical cost increasing, 401K matching is subpar, etc) Huge/static company with little growth. You can work your bottoms off and not get anything to show for it. HR is often an obstacle and not a tool. Not enough diversity despite all the mandatory training and seminars offered to employees. Vast majority of senior executives are white men. No accountability enforced by managers (employees under utilized and often disengaged). Went from being one of the top employers in the region to being the joke around town. Salaries are not competitive and don’t keep up with cost of living. Top heavy and senior management is more concerned with maintaining status quo/ collecting their paychecks than growing the company. Most of engineering is either outsourced or is in the process of being outsourced. Every company in this industry produces the same products and offers same services.

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Opportunity for advancement, Friendly Atmosphere, Plenty of Time Off, Training Availability

Cons

In the process of restructuring (2026)

1.0
Jul 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are honestly some very talented engineers working at IGT who you can learn a lot from.

Cons

Everything else is a con. -The managers here are downright incompetent, or downright put in a bad situation where they have to manage multiple people. -Usually merging between two companies never ends up well, but it's worse when you get laid off for no reason aside from: "we want to save money" -Tech stack is so vastly outdated and the directors/ management never seem to want to do anything about making this a better work environment. -Lack of communication. -Special Treatment of certain studios/ candidates. -This is the only company that made me have trust issues with people or managers or anything of the like. There is usually politics in play at companies, but with IGT, it's worse, a lot worse. -The hiring process was rigorous, yet the company showed little regard for retaining or supporting employees. After being laid off, there was virtually no communication or explanation. It's difficult to understand why the company invests so much effort in hiring talented people only to treat layoffs as an afterthought. Employees deserve transparency and respect throughout the process. The company has significant work to do in how it values and communicates with its workforce. Kindly learn to read a resume before you hire someone. -Poor executive leadership from the CEO (Hector Fernandez) and CTO has resulted in an outdated technology stack, low morale, and a lack of long-term engineering vision. If leadership is unwilling to address these issues, they should resign and allow people who are committed to improving the company to take over.

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