Aristocrat reviews about "manager"

Favouritism, most people in the team are managers relatives or known to them so they only get an edge

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.

There is constant upheaval internally. I had 5 VPs in the span of 4 years. Endured multiple reorgs with a carrot of a promotion held in front of me to be told, "just wait another year." The poor managers are constantly trying to hire people, but HR will pause the job req last second almost every time.

Direct manager wasnt quite proffessional.

Significant management changes have disrupted the product vision, workplace environment, and five-year roadmap, and have made the workplace intolerable. What was previously a position of high job security is now unstable. Senior leadership stated in a global town hall an intention to reduce headcount and replace roles with AI, and requested support for employee terminations. Recent policy changes prioritize employee exits or cost reductions that negatively affect staff. The global HR head said in a company-wide meeting that she does not care about people’s opinions on many matters and instructed employees to stop providing feedback on those topics in HR-run internal surveys. Upper management is enforcing inter-team competition in a manner that reduces productivity and is creating a degrading work environment. Decisions about the company’s future, five-year roadmap, workflows, and technology stack are being made by senior management without sufficient data or planning. Lower-level managers are being terminated individually in targeted actions and individual contributors are being laid off in small groups on a near-monthly basis. Work-from-home, flexible scheduling, and work-hours policies are being progressively made less favorable for employees, with policy updates occurring quarterly. Management has announced plans to track employees' devices' physical locations and monitor work habits. Workload is gradually increasing and lower management is being pressured to raise efficiency. Even the limited learning opportunities and career growth the company previously offered are no longer available. I read several recent positive reviews and couldn't shake the suspicion they might be fabricated by HR. In a global meeting the head of HR had said she wasn't concerned about negative Glassdoor feedback, yet she later raised the subject in an unrelated conversation — which struck me as odd. Given the company's present situation, those factors together make it plausible the new positive posts are disingenuous, though I have no concrete proof; it's only a strong intuition.

Extremely incompetent management. Top leaders keeps on saying "We want to make the India office a GCC" Global capability centre. if you keep on firing employees like this, you can forget the India office will even exist in few months. All the new managers are incompetent and doesnt know how to handle team and keep boasting how great they are and how much changes they have brought. A bunch of self-loathing egoists. First they will give you fake appreciation and an award for best performer, and then they will fire you the next month.

Quite a few. This company pulls sins from Btobet. There are employments based on if a C-level manager is your friend. Due to those kinds of employments (people who do not know to develop code i.e. do their job) the teams suffer. Another big problem is, at the moment of this review the company does not have a direction. The iGaming sector does not know where it's going and due to that the roadmap is very much unstable. It changes every 2-3 weeks meaning a lot of frustration with the development teams, unstable releases and prolonged regression periods. Also, six releases per year - not necessary. The HR department. Surprisingly clueless. They are slow and do not follow up, ever. They act like they care but they really don't which is just sad. The transparency they preach is fake and they carry fake & meaningless job titles. Equipment - mediocre at best. From laptops to the office, far from good so that's that.

Nothing as such for now

Direct manager wasnt quite proffessional.