AmTrust reviews

3.8

67% would recommend to a friend

(877 total reviews)

Barry D. Zyskind

75% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

AmTrust has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 877 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AmTrust employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.7 stars).

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877 reviews
1.0
Sep 29, 2014

Enlightening

Recommend
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Pros

-endless opportunities for personal and professional growth if managers like your personality and you emulate their values -good location downtown -fast paced environment -global company -looks decent on resume if you self teach yourself the experience you need

Cons

-lack of training or team building exercises -no expectations set by managers so much confusion exists about jobs function -no project planning whatsoever which causes poor planning with the architecture of the software system, thus causing a poor quality and unstable system -deadlines are based on arbitrary and unrealistic dates without any proper requirement gathering or research -promotions are made not due to employee competency but because of nepotism and cronyism -software methodologies are extremely out of date and are changed on a daily basis without being communicated to the team. This company is not in compliance with sox regulations (these are financial systems) -companies which have been acquired are forced to replace their software system and almost always are treated disrespectfully and are forced to accept a downgrade in quality -employees are requested to perform manager functions without proper guidance or any compensation -company turnover rate is extremely high -threats to fire people and talking down to employees occurs more often than not to deflect blame -for get best practices, no practices is the way it goes here -no integration of culture after acquisition occurs

1.0
Sep 24, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Pro: Salary. Easy transition from contract to hire, good compensation.

Cons

Absolutely every element outside of salary. Interviewed for and accepted a position that I would still one day like to have.. however every one of my teammates and I were hired based on skills and qualifications that we have yet to utilize, expected to perform job requirements that we were not hired to do, no accountability, no communication, those in leadership might as well still be in highschool. when asking a manager for permission to go directly to another team's lead for further instruction working to close a project, I was told "no just don't, i'm not speaking to that person right now so forget about it" therefore project sits while the ladies bicker. ridiculous. i promise that anything you are hired in to do, you will not be doing while working at amtrust.

1.0
Aug 3, 2014

Terrible career move.

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Pros

If you're looking for a just where you can just slack off and do nothing, this is the place. Most of the people do next to nothing, and all the work is carried on the backs of a few select people. The processes are broken or non-existent, but instead of fixing them, they just keep throwing more people at it. So they hire lots of people who get no training and it's easy to collect a paycheck without doing anything. Some people play video games, some people watch movies on their phones, and some just read e-books all day. Management is too clueless to notice, and when they do, they don't have the backbone to do anything about it.

Cons

Nothing you learn here will be of any use. They don't follow any processes that would be considered standard for the industry. So no matter how long you spend here, your experience is worthless anywhere else, and you'll need to start over. No one in management has relevant experience in the field either, so they have nothing to teach you. Their primary goal is to create a believable act for when SOX audit time comes that they adequate change management procedures, even if they don't follow those policies most of the time, and doctor the data later. Pay is also sub par. You can make 30-50% more working almost anywhere else in a comparable position. If you care about your career at all, you won't tank it by working here.

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