Amplify reviews

3.4

50% would recommend to a friend

(608 total reviews)
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Larry Berger

72% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Amplify has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 608 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amplify employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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608 reviews
1.0
Jun 20, 2016

went down the drain

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some great people and a worthwhile mission to use technology in education. Lots of flexibility about workday and work-from-home.

Cons

Executive management made up of educators, not business people. Unqualified leadership made made bad decisions, or no decisions at all. Eventually most of the company was laid off and many products were shut down.

3.0
Sep 8, 2015

Sadness. Just sadness.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I really like most of the people there. While some great people have moved on, there are still many who really care about the mission and work hard to make Amplify successful.

Cons

DevOps is an unmitigated disaster. No joke. It's really bad. In general, Amplify has pretty much pillaged they're friends at NewsCorp. So much so that NewsCorp has decided to pawn us off on another buyer. Amplify tried to do too much at once and spread themselves too thin. They weren't wise with the money they were given and now the company is suffering for it.

1.0
Jul 21, 2015
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Pros

Free drinks and once a week breakfast. Office is inviting, room with wii and games, great for breaks!

Cons

There are many silos going on in this company specially at Amplify Insight. HR tries to pull many shady things, this is just one. Disregarding the complaints I brought up to HR during my two years there, (all documented) I finally resigned. I had an excellent performance review the first year and a good one the next year. I knew of a person in my team who was put in a performance plan, so it seems there is some sort of process followed there when performance is an issue. Two days after my resignation, my manager at the time schedules a catch up meeting, where he smiled and said to me he didn't need me anymore. Guess he had forgotten my resignation sent to the head of HR and him via email? Or me letting him know in person? I was taken to HR, and she wanted me to sign a letter with the words “Voluntarily Terminated". I told her to send to me via email, as I have never had to sign anything when I have resigned. I was escorted out. Two days later, HR sends a page with the words "Voluntarily Resigned" on it and the HR claims it never said “Termination" on it. Afters speaking to a lawyer, a company in the state of NY has "fire at will" policy, and this is one example of how they could exercise this policy. Even though I had resigned, even though my performance could not be questioned, they couldn't put me in a performance plan. But to try to make me sign a "Termination" paper? Then take two days to change the word "Termination" into Resignation and try to deny the fact that you tried to fire me? Work here at your own risk. Keep in mind Murdoch. Good luck.

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