Kasra Farivari

Senior Product Manager

Product Madness, Aristocrat

This page is published for the protection of Kasra's co-workers.

Kasra Farivari is a product manager for Aristocrat and its subsidiary Product Madness, a company that produces slot machine apps for mobile devices.

In the experience of some of his co-workers:

• Kasra has described his co-workers on the software engineering team as "fucking lazy."

• Kasra has routinely ignored reporting lines, making demands and issuing orders to co-workers as if they reported to him directly, including those already assigned to other tasks by their supervisors. 

• Kasra has berated co-workers who explain that there are resource and technology limitations to his demands.

• Kasra has said that he became a product manager so that he would not have to learn technical skills.

• Kasra has threatened and targeted co-workers who object to his behaviour.

• Kasra has demanded to know, "Why does everyone speak to me like a child?"

Some of Kasra's co-workers have described him as a narcissist, a personality disorder which includes:

• having an unreasonably high sense of self-importance

• expecting to be recognized as superior

• easily feeling slighted

• taking advantage of others to get what they want

• belittling others to make themselves appear superior

• being critical of and looking down on people they feel are not important

• being unable or unwilling to recognize the needs and feelings of others