SQA Engineer II - SQA Engineer II Scientific Games Employee Review

1.0
Nov 7, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

I worked with some very talented people and loved the work-life balance when I started in 2011. Once the company got purchased from Scientific Games, it all went downhill. A lot of great people left or got laid-off.

Cons

Management became bullies once company was purchased. Pay raises and promotions froze for several years. What once was one of the top companies to work for in Chicago (WMS) fell very far from grace. I tried to stick it out for a couple years but things just kept getting worse. There was constant threats of mass layoffs every quarter which caused middle management to run many departments within the company like slave drivers. This killed any motivation to go above and beyond.

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