Amplify reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(608 total reviews)
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Larry Berger

73% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Amplify has an employee rating of 3.3 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
Jul 21, 2015
Recommend
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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.

3.0
Jul 20, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I think your day-to-day experience at Amplify depends heavily on which team you work with. As for me, I find my coworkers engaged and intelligent; they're all good and interesting people. The work we're doing does have a social impact, so it's nice not to go home at the end of the day having built yet another silly app or website.

Cons

I've been at Amplify for about two years, and I feel like things are up and down. When I came onboard, things were down: morale was low and turnover was high. Then they hired a new CEO for our division. Things changed: management started listening to employees again. There were snacks in the kitchen, more events and clubs, they redesigned the office. It felt great -- but it only lasted about 8 or 9 months. Towards the beginning of the year management announced that we would be restructuring, from three divisions into one. Restructuring is never pleasant, and sometimes growing pains are necessary, but on the whole the transition has been handled badly. It feels as though employees don't matter again. So, morale is again sinking, and people are again starting to leave. Asking senior management questions is frustrating: they're more likely to tell you that whatever you asked about is important, but they won't tell you how they plan to achieve it or ensure that it comes about smoothly. Which is to say management seems entirely clueless and incompetent because they don't inspire a vision or detail an overall direction we're going in. If Amplify fails, it won't be because of the products or the market. It will be because of poor senior management.

1.0
Jul 13, 2015

Couldn't kill it faster if they were trying

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Amplify used to hire smart engineers who cared about education. Pay was originally low, but they fixed that. The location is nice.

Cons

At the rate "One Amplify" is going, it will soon be "no amplify". Senior leadership lied to us about the timeline and purpose of the reorg. Rumors became the primary source of news, since management communicated nothing. An entire division was gutted; the technical head of this division was promoted to CTO of the company. Officially this was to push their process on the rest of the company, but there's no one left to champion that process. Projects in the rest of the company are being shut down at a startling rate, and people everywhere are fleeing before the ship goes down. Their positions are not being backfilled. Among all of the people issues, the inconsistent wifi that prevents work from being done is just the icing on the cake.

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