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
2.0
Feb 21, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly people, transparency from management, accessible management, ability to change roles within the company

Cons

The Education sector hampers innovative technological advances as sales are driven by RFPs. Sales team makes deals that are unrealistic for dev teams to meet, causing reactive engineering with lots of tight deadlines and stress. The company does not have a vision for its products -- instead, it just tries to check off boxes on RFPs to get sales, and bend over backwards to keep difficult customers.

3.0
Jun 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay for the area Very nice people from different offices/areas Hours were good

Cons

Constant teleconferencing daily Cronyism Nepotism Job ended abruptly due to HORRIBLE tablet product Management wasn't upfront about decisions being made that affected lower level employee's There is a bad culture of "We don't know what's going on or what is going to happen" in regard to their product Constant software updates to resolve issues only to create another issue.

2.0
Apr 13, 2014

Three Companies, One Name

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Pros

There are many nice people on the development teams who sincerely want to work with teachers to make technology work for them.

Cons

Senior management is terrible at communicating company goals and syncing up the three divisions. It is quite common that employees in one division have no idea what is going on in the other two. The best we get is a company-wide blast PR email linking to media coverage after product announcements. The last several all-company meetings have largely been ego strokefests where the executives show off that they know famous people. Those of us that actually build the products don't care if you know the guy who co-wrote Game Change. Implementing great user interfaces is given low priority. There is a real dearth of front-end development specialists. Too much capital-A Agile process, not enough agility. In my case, several years without a raise despite consistently high-quality work and skill growth (under my own initiative).

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