AmTrust reviews

There are managers with no business in their positions, but are there because of relations with executives. There are groups with a lot of functional crossover which cause headaches and overall strategy to go into different directions. This tends to be the inexperienced or managers that want to keep things the same as they have been in the past versus the innovators. There are some managers that don't show up either at all or to pertinent meetings. There are others that have too many meetings, many of which seem useless. There are many people that do not work, not because they do not want to, but because they are not managed properly. There are also people that need to go to other managers or have to invite themselves to meetings to get direction and find out what is going on. Basically the organization structure does not adhere to industry standards. Management seems to think that it is something that keeps them elite compared to their competition, but in reality it creates more work and to bring someone off the street can be painful.

AmTrust acquired a company I was with and offered most of us positions. Same pay, worse benefits (less coverage for higher premiums) and a severe cut to vacation days. There was also a pay freeze with our former company that AmTrust is carrying on with us meaning that it has been 2 years without raises for us workers (despite the fact that public transit costs continue to rise every 6 months and most of us take public transit to work). After 6 months of acquiring us, they have yet to give us back simple things that the former company cut to save money: forks/spoons/knives in cafeteria, hand soap in cafeteria/breakroom, offering professional development classes, fixing broken microwaves in the building. HR is difficult to research. You receive an automatic reply that they get asked a lot of questions so they may not have time to answer you. You need to ask your manager to contact them in order to ask a simply question. They also have you clock in and then out whenever you are at your desk (instead of the trust based system of logging your hours). There is overall very little trust between the company and its employees. There is no chance for career growth or development as they seem to hire all levels of management from outside the company.