Evolution reviews about "people"

Bad upper management (would rather fire and hire than work with good employees), PTO and unpaid time off constantly being denied, consistently understaffed and overworked, very strict about appearance

Removal of remote work and opportunities

Pay is likely to not be great, especially when you start and until you have the hang of things to consistently hit performance bonuses. Day to day expectations can be unpredictable and demand you to be all over the studio with little to no notice. Expectations in general are often unclear and constantly changing. Hard to put down pros because many of the quality of life perks are subject to be taken away. For example: I came into the company being pitched as a European work culture that cares about work life balance and frequent breaks, then left the company feeling like I was being run into the ground every day. I was lucky to have more than 40 minutes of break time in 8 hours and if I didn't get a full break I was basically told that nothing could be done. Antisocial dynamics with coworkers are encouraged through rules that severely punish you for even a few words exchanged with coworkers on the floor. Rules like the above also are not consistently enforced but cover a wide net of common human behaviors while on camera, so you never know when they could pull something up and write you up for it. Meaning that even after you have tenure and experience with the company and feel like you're good at your job, you could easily end up out the door if you don't walk on eggshells. Upward mobility in the company is questionable. Unqualified candidates move up into management or higher positions while there are good, reliable employees who interview and get nothing. As a result, you will have incompetent managers. Many don't care and just show up to get a paycheck, others want to do a good job and just don't have the resources or qualifications to succeed. In general it feels like they do hire just anybody to get bodies on camera and don't seem to respect that there is skill required to do the job well. Because of them hiring just anybody to do the job, there is a revolving door of new hires coming and going. Which spikes tippable hours with dealers who aren't pulling their weight in tips, then causes steep staff shortages when they fire people. On top of that, the shortcomings of a few reflect on all. So even if you are a good dealer who shows up to work everyday, being where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to be, and you do your job well; you will often times be treated the same as the lowest common denominator by your superiors.

not enough opportunities to grow

I watched the company lay people off after just a few months of hire only to re-post the job later for a much lower salary. They fire people without cause due to personal reasons. There is no culture, you come work, get no acknowledgement and leave for the day. During travel and hiring freezes still had the nerve to give the CEO a 700k bonus all while they scaled back health insurance by doubling the deductible and dropping prescription coverage . Despite being Evolution North America they have been going out of their way to let go of American employees only to replace them with Europeans even when they are clearly not qualified for the position. This place is a joke and does not care one bit about their employees. They will tell you there’s tons of room for professional growth while it doesn’t exist and if you disagree with anything you will be retaliated against.

THEY TRY MAKE YOU SIGN AN NDA WHEN YOU GET FIRED/LEAVE THE COMPANY. Thats why there arent more bad reviews. I didn’t sign it so they withheld my PTO from me (which was communicated to me) but the sheer length of the NDA and everything they wanted to restrict me from talking about was insane. So let me shed a little light: they treat you like you’re subhuman. No unpaid time off under any circunstances even if your wife is dying in the hospital they genuinely will not care and will still give you points for calling out. If theyre overstaffed they will treat it like hunting season and will fire the first person to mess up. There were multiple people I knew there who were fired for such insanely small reasons and sometimes even 5 people could be fired in the same day. When they’re understaffed you’re worked to the bone for barely any extra compensation. You can’t even take time off to go to a funeral unless it’s a parent, grandparent, sibling, or your own child. That means you have to miss the funerals of friends, aunts and uncles, and anyone else you care about if you want to keep your job. Upward mobility within the company is also near impossible. You’re far more likely to be fired for breathing too hard than be promoted even one tier above the entry level. It’s an ok job if you’re young and looking for something for short term but if you’re looking for anything long term, have a family, or even just want to have a social life this is NOT the job for you. The company relies on the floor supervisors to essentially run everything while the team managers do nothing but type away on their computers all day and fire people. Without the floor supervisors the studio would be up in flames in an instant so it always feels like everything is just running on hopes and prayers. The studio is also disgusting because they barely clean it to minimize the amount of time they have to take the game presenters off the tables because of course, all they care about is sucking money from the gambling addicted players. I used to wear hand makeup because they don’t allow hand tattoos and when I would get it on the wall by accident it would stay there for weeks uncleaned. Everything is cheaply held together by duct tape and some of the game presenters pick their disgusting nails while on tables and leave the gunk that comes out on the table for the next game presenter. You can’t even say bless you when someone sneezes without the risk of being written up. You always have big brother watching so even if you close your eyes for more than 5 seconds that could be a violation. Don’t even get me started on if you have the misfortune of being forced to learn lightning roulette. That room should be used by the CIA as a form of torture. You have to stand there by yourself pulling a lever and reading numbers into oblivion while the loud as hell pressurized air blasts into the wheel to spin the ball every 30 seconds. I genuinely was concerned I was starting to lose my hearing. When you’re in training they give you false hope about this great community and work culture they have and how we’re just one big family but once you actually start working on the gaming floor you’re genuinely treated like livestock. All they care about is their profit margins. I could go on and on but honestly I’m going to stop myself here so I don’t waste any more of my breath on this dump of a company.

Your hands hurt, especially at the start. The break can be 1 hour after the start of your shift or they add it 2 hours before you finish. Most of people do not care about your experience, so it feels like you doing a boring job that nobody cares about.| The promotions are only for people they know personally.

Cons is everything else in this company.