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
2.0
Jul 3, 2014

A Huge Disappointment

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free soda. I met some nice people working there.

Cons

The department I worked in was toxic. Mainly because of the poor leadership. My advice is to stay away, unless you know for sure that the department you would work for does not embrace dysfunction. Human resources is ineffective and terrible. I've noted the onslaught of positive review over the past month, it's a bit perplexing.

4.0
Jun 17, 2014

Great tech culture

Anonymous employee
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Pros

great people to work with good work/life balance interesting projects focus on technology and quality noble cause

Cons

perks aren't that great but seems like management started paying attention to that not many opportunities for career growth

4.0
Jun 17, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The engineering staff is solid as a whole, good people, enjoyable work days. It obviously varies somewhat by team, but all are pretty strong. They restructured the career paths/titles/job descriptions in mid-2014 and now it feels like there is a growth path. The group I was in aggressively pushed people they identified as having potential into new roles as available. This company also has a very good work-life balance and really wants to help fix education.

Cons

The perks are lacking, as in there had been effectively none. It was just starting to change when I left (mid-2014). Salary is the same, hasn't been up to market, but they're making a slow effort to raise pay. As Amplify is now owned by News Corp, there is a feeling of levels of management above the average engineer reaching into the sky and just not providing any value. There is a very lenient work from home policy that I think hurts team cohesion at times. It was not unusual for me to be the only one in the office for one of my teams. While the engineering is solid, it's about 1/5th of the company in terms of people and sometimes I think the company forgets that this is a technology company and engineering is not always front-and-center.

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