Aristocrat reviews

Management is highly political, mostly unqualified, full of nepotism, and lacks vision. Their decisions seem backwards and illogical most times and are reactive rather than proactive. The software engineering side is very frustrating because there is so much process that hinders productivity and foregoes common sense, and puts politics first. We waste a lot of our time in meetings that don’t provide any value, like standup updates, and we don’t have nearly enough engineers and even other roles that you’d expect like project managers involved in our projects, for the types of projects we do. Our C team has all left to work for the competition instead the past year, and left us with their messy decisions, like a reorg that shuffled the teams around and turned us into a horizontal org. You will run into a lot of analysis paralysis here from engineers with little experience in the problem they’re blocking when it comes to trying to solve problems involving multiple people or teams. Tons of indecision, lack of ownership, anecdotal dismissal of ideas, and people that will tell you everything is impossible to solve. This org needlessly hinders innovation and is full of politics.