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
4.0
Mar 14, 2014

Great Autonomy depending on what team you will be in

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Pros

I am working in a team that has great autonomy and great teammates of 15 people. We work on multiple products so everybody in our team get to work on few projects at the same time. There are very little involvement from senior / executive level and team has so much freedom of developing own idea, prototype, test and go through the lean style. Because there are very little guidance, who stands up and voice out gets more opportunity. This company has a structure as a corporation but very young in terms of maturity. So there are tons of room for you to propose new thinking and try out. Most people leave work by 6pm. At 6:30pm, company is 90% empty. That means you rarely work late. Very liberal for letting employee to work from home for any reasons, or leave early for any emergency. For example, if you have to be out of state for few weeks for family emergency, you may request to your team and supervisor to work remotely for that duration. So, if you have a passion in other stuff, like arts, music, etc, this is a great work place that enable you to pursue both. In fact, many people are doing it.

Cons

Management always talk about salary should not be compared to other companies outside of education field. If you need a lot of guidance in your career development, this may not be a good place since you can pretty much get left alone without being assigned much. So if you are not self started, self motivated people, then this is not a good place. Design thinking is not truly practiced here. People with that kind of training do struggle a bit since entire company is not striving to become design driven company. Unlike Google or other tech firms, office environment is decent but not fantastic. They certainly put less money for office environment compare to Twitter, Skype, Google or Airbnb. Services for employees are limited. No free lunch, no free healthy snacks, no massage service, no laundry service, no play room. They do have shower room, bike racks, free sodas (and orange/apple/grapefruit juice), popcorn, etc. Occasionally, there are company parties offers some food and drinks. Too much divide between teams and divisions. Very difficult to learn what rest of company is doing unless you make friends with people outside of your team, division or business unit. Company is not yet practicing design thinking in full scale.

2.0
Mar 12, 2014
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Pros

You can ride your bicycle to work. Conveniently located in DUMBO. Work alongside fairly smart people, especially if you're a software engineer. Enjoy job security in your role due to high turnover rate.

Cons

Wasteful spending in Amplify's Learning division. Plus, the Amplify Learning Division is nowhere near ready to roll out their digital curriculum and that's after tens of millions of dollars spent on R&D and 2.5 years of work...they still have A LONG ROAD AHEAD. High turnover throughout the company over the past year. Also, the company typically pays lower salaries.

1.0
Mar 10, 2014
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Pros

Some really nice people who care about the work they do. The majority of people really want to do good for the world. Work/life balance is great.

Cons

Terrible senior and middle management. Shifting business models and priorities. The only people who stay at this company are the ones making it a terrible place to work.

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