Multimedia Games Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Multimedia Games full-time

Pros – -Growth and lateral move potential
-Flexible work hours
-Employee appreciation
-Headed in the right direction in the industry

Cons – -Office is in a very inaccessible part of town

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Multimedia Games full-time

Pros – Casual work environment and work / life balance
Some career growth possible
Good location
Ok compensation

Cons – Disloyal senior management trying to sell the company
No accountability in senior management
Too political for a company this small
No real innovation done recently, just renaming past products
Too much disparity between groups
Losing talented people either voluntarily or forcing them out
Immoral practices

Advice to Senior Management – Reduce executive compensation. Invest in employees instead. Get rid of politics. Promote/commend employees who do the real work, not who are taking credit for it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Multimedia Games

Pros – Great culture
Great co-workers
Innovative environment
Great work-life balance

Cons – Inadequate compensation (until you find another job)
flat structure leads to not as much growth opportunities
some members of executive management short sighted and sometimes plain incompetent

Advice to Senior Management – evaluate your worth, evaluate worth of employees regularly. If they're seriously looking for another job, it's already too late. keep up the culture and innovative environment.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Multimedia Games full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Multimedia Games has a great work-life balance.

Cons – The traffic on 360 is the only major downfall.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Multimedia Games full-time for more than a year

Pros – Fun people and decent environment

Cons – Poorly rewarded employees and poor management

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Multimedia Games

Pros – Get to work in a field (gaming/gambling) that is unusual and few people get to see. Lots of interesting and behind the scenes view into casinos.

Cons – You will be worked hard and expected to be available for support at all hours of the night. You may have to travel at any given moment with very little notice.

Advice to Senior Management – Show more appreciation to employees that go the extra mile. Offer bonuses and stock to employees that put in extra time and effort or go above and beyond.

Former Employee – worked at Multimedia Games

Pros – Good pay, and I learned a lot. They used cutting edge server and data base technology, interesting field. Good hiring practices.

Cons – Extreme number of late night support calls. Too many projects with too few engineers. Owners sons given free reign. Expected to provide poor customer service.

Advice to Senior Management – Take Fewer projects, focus on a small set of core customers and make them extremely happy. Don't allow business development to promise features without consulting development.

Former Employee – worked at Multimedia Games

Pros – Pay is fair
Good work/home life balance
Unique work experience working with Indian casino gaming
Casual work environment and dress code

Cons – Training is virtually nonexistent
Disorganized in a lot of business processes
Support from management is lacking at times
Employees are placed in positions without consideration of their qualifications or their career path

Advice to Senior Management – When you unilaterally pigeonhole your employees into undesirable positions, you're pretty much telling them you don't value them as employees and they will go elsewhere. Start treating your employees as partners instead of flunkies. Work with them on their career paths to find the best fit for both the employee and the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Multimedia Games

Pros – Lots to work on and it's pretty dynamic. Chances to work on a variety of technologies / platforms, so it never gets boring. Work / life balance is pretty good. Rewards are given more for success than for simply working hard.

Cons – No real chance for career growth - company is stagnant and offers few opportunities to climb the corporate ladder.
Not a place to come if you're a beginner - there is no training and most developers are too busy to show newbies the ropes.
Not very much cooperation among teams or even within teams - everyone is out to prove that they are the indispensable team / developer, even if it means putting down good ideas simply because they did not think of them first (how else could we have 3 different developments for the SAME product).

Advice to Senior Management – Foster a more cooperative environment among people and teams. Growth growth growth (I know, easier said than done).

Current Employee – been working at Multimedia Games

Pros – Talented, fun, fearless people
Huge potential for market growth
Unique, interesting industry

Cons – Lack of accountibility
Poor strategic vision
Poor communication from management to employees
Lack of career advancement
High stress mode of operation

Advice to Senior Management – Believe in the company's potential and put more effort in trying to grow the company versus trying to unload the problems. Strong and clear strategic vision and leadership are greatly needed.