Amplify reviews

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.

There USED to be a great tablet division in Manhattan with lots of great employees and an interesting set of products. This division is all but gone in the name of "One Amplify," the initiative to combine all divisions and share technology and practices. It was initially pitched as increased communication and cooperation between divisions. The end result is that the tablet division was dissolved and all of their products were canceled. Almost everyone from that division has left the company over the last few months, those remaining (including myself) were shipped to Brooklyn. No one here seems to really care about education. Most of the talk from product sounds more like marketing. The state of tech here is dismal. Releases happen once every three months and take two weeks. Our servers are managed by a horribly understaffed remote team. It takes weeks or even months to get something as simple as a testing environment to deploy to. Unsurprisingly, we're still losing people at a hilarious rate. And there's a hiring freeze on. Disclaimer: I'm just bitter because this was the best job I had ever had, but it only lasted a few months before my division was shut down.