AmTrust reviews

Raise to adjuster was only 7% and the annual raises was misleading. I was told 3% but it was really only 2.9%. When I questioned it, HR was very defensive. No official bonuses. Training is horrible. You are lucky if you receive four days of training. You are not encouraged to improve practices of the company.

AmTrust's problems stem from the poorly-trained management and no corporate culture. You'll get negative feedback on your performance in the form of tersely worded emails from managers, who don't see the point in face-to-face communication with their team members, and no positive feedback whatsoever. I, for one, had to relay messages between my team lead and another, both of whom had temper issues and refused to speak to each other directly. My team leads and manager were irascible, unapproachable people, and promoted an environment where talking to one another for non-business purposes was discouraged. My team members and I quickly learned that they are averse to so much as being greeted or spoken to in the hallway. While the toxic managerial interactions made working there plenty intolerable, I should also add that AmTrust pays its developers well below the average rate. I know of fellow developers who, after having worked there for years, received no pay raises, despite positive performance evaluations. Further, as a developer, you are corralled into a certain programming specialty without the opportunity to explore other areas of .NET development--either you are a web developer, a database manager, and so forth. They will say you have every opportunity to expand and learn new things, but that is invariably a lie. I found my .NET growth being stunted, since there's only so much new C#/VB syntax to learn on the backend. Do what I did; come to AmTrust for a solid introduction to .NET programming, and then leave.