Pros
You get paid on time.
Cons
Environment is highly toxic. Sexism and racism are rampant. In my time the only other woman aside from myself was dismissed and I was the only member of the team whose position was “eliminated” due to the current COVID-19 pandemic (despite the fact that I worked for the only part of the company that is still considered profitable). All of the male employees including those that were hired after me are still part of the team. I was constantly belittled by my senior coworkers who would respond to my questions with questions or say that they were testing me or send me a document to read instead of simply responding to my questions. I was not invited to the team meetings with company executives that other members of my team participated in (all men) nor the company trip to the headquarters to discuss the future of the products I was working on everyday. Weeks before we were sent home on account of the Coronavirus pandemic, I watched my boss turn to one of the team members and recoil,” jokingly” telling him not to sit too close because he is originally from China. This was business as usual and the list is, unfortunately, endless. Leaders are inept. My boss consistently had to ask members of his team for updates on what we were working on, instead of guiding the process and MANAGING. Senior members of the team refused to share knowledge as a way of protecting their jobs, spending time looking busy instead of working on documentation and testing strategies that would actually promote more effective workflow and allow the company to build good, forward-looking products. Senior leaders would constantly appropriate the work and ideas of team members, earning awards, bonuses and raises, leaving the folks who actually drive the products in the dust. Benefits are subpar and got worse every year. I live in state that is different from where I worked and I was barely covered or not covered at all for any of my regular doctors as they were considered “out of network.” SG claims to be leader but the only leadership I saw was how best to drive a business into the ground. It became a running joke among the newer members of the team about how surprised we were that yet another “John Smith” we had never heard of was promoted or hired to a leadership position. If diversity means innovation, Scientific Games is without a doubt on the opposite end of that spectrum. If you are a young person, woman, minority or have strong feelings about right and wrong, don’t apply here. If you are a current employee who is not a middle-aged white male dramatically saving the company by not taking your usually lofty salary, I wish you the best and hope that you get out ASAP.
