This post summarizes company reviews on Glassdoor. It contains tables and charts to show what employees write the most about to describe their workplace experiences, and whether they tend to be expressed in a more negative, positive, or neutral way.

A variety of text analytics tasks were applied on a case of top companies in the gaming manufacturing sector that have a large presence in Las Vegas. These include:

  • Aristocrat Technologies,
  • IGT, and
  • Scientific Games.

Companies in this sector provide gambling products by designing, developing and manufacturing gaming displays, slot machines, card counters and shufflers, transaction systems, and related service support.

To date, over 1,500 reviews total have been posted among the three companies. Each company has a different number of reviews where the amount of text analyzed is larger for IGT and smaller for Aristocrat and Scientific Games. As such, bar graphs in a panel layout for all three companies may not necessarily be comparable across charts, however are displayed this way to make it easier to see patterns within each individual chart.

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PART 1: REVIEWER PROFILE

Number of Reviews by Year
Year Freq Percent
Aristocrat - Total Reviews: 300
2008 1 0.3
2010 3 1.0
2011 6 2.0
2012 19 6.3
2013 33 11.0
2014 25 8.3
2015 57 19.0
2016 60 20.0
2017 70 23.3
2018 26 8.7
IGT - Total Reviews: 876
2008 3 0.3
2009 7 0.8
2010 33 3.8
2011 45 5.1
2012 34 3.9
2013 72 8.2
2014 171 19.5
2015 158 18.0
2016 141 16.1
2017 148 16.9
2018 64 7.3
Scientific Games - Total Reviews: 375
2008 2 0.5
2009 2 0.5
2010 5 1.3
2011 2 0.5
2012 4 1.1
2013 7 1.9
2014 22 5.9
2015 55 14.7
2016 81 21.6
2017 121 32.3
2018 74 19.7
Top 5 Number of Reviews by Location
Location Freq Percent
Aristocrat
Not Given 89 29.7
Noida (India) 78 26.0
Las Vegas, NV 75 25.0
Sydney (Australia) 24 8.0
North Ryde (Australia) 11 3.7
IGT
Not Given 328 37.4
Reno, NV 183 20.9
Las Vegas, NV 110 12.6
Providence, RI 30 3.4
Austin, TX 26 3.0
Scientific Games
Not Given 156 41.6
Alpharetta, GA 40 10.7
Chicago, IL 39 10.4
Bengaluru (India) 33 8.8
Las Vegas, NV 22 5.9
Note: Top 5 based on percent ranking.
Top 5 Number of Reviews by Position Title
Position Freq Percent
Aristocrat
Anonymous Employee 146 48.7
Senior Software Engineer 17 5.7
Software Engineer 10 3.3
Director 7 2.3
Team Lead 6 2.0
IGT
Anonymous Employee 432 49.3
Software Engineer 46 5.3
Senior Software Engineer 16 1.8
Manager 14 1.6
Project Manager 14 1.6
Scientific Games
Anonymous Employee 205 54.7
Software Engineer 23 6.1
Manager 8 2.1
Computer Operator 7 1.9
Senior Software Engineer 7 1.9
Note: Top 5 based on percent ranking.

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PART 2: STAR RATINGS SECTION

Star Ratings
Company Culture Sr. Mgmt Work-Life Bal. Compensation Career Opp. Overall
Aristocrat 3.5 2.9 3.4 3.7 3.2 3.4
IGT 3.0 2.6 3.1 3.2 2.8 3.2
Scientific Games 3.0 2.5 3.1 3.0 2.6 3.1

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PART 3: COMPANY REVIEWS SECTION

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Sentiment Scoring of Pros & Cons

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Variability of Sentiment Scores
Company Min Qrtl.1 Median Mean Qrtl.3 Max
Aristocrat -16 -2 0 -0.9 1 9
IGT -33 -2 -1 -1.3 1 6
Scientific Games -28 -2 0 -1.2 1 10

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