Amplify reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(607 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 607 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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607 reviews
3.0
Jul 20, 2015
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Pros

I think your day-to-day experience at Amplify depends heavily on which team you work with. As for me, I find my coworkers engaged and intelligent; they're all good and interesting people. The work we're doing does have a social impact, so it's nice not to go home at the end of the day having built yet another silly app or website.

Cons

I've been at Amplify for about two years, and I feel like things are up and down. When I came onboard, things were down: morale was low and turnover was high. Then they hired a new CEO for our division. Things changed: management started listening to employees again. There were snacks in the kitchen, more events and clubs, they redesigned the office. It felt great -- but it only lasted about 8 or 9 months. Towards the beginning of the year management announced that we would be restructuring, from three divisions into one. Restructuring is never pleasant, and sometimes growing pains are necessary, but on the whole the transition has been handled badly. It feels as though employees don't matter again. So, morale is again sinking, and people are again starting to leave. Asking senior management questions is frustrating: they're more likely to tell you that whatever you asked about is important, but they won't tell you how they plan to achieve it or ensure that it comes about smoothly. Which is to say management seems entirely clueless and incompetent because they don't inspire a vision or detail an overall direction we're going in. If Amplify fails, it won't be because of the products or the market. It will be because of poor senior management.

1.0
Jul 13, 2015

Couldn't kill it faster if they were trying

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Amplify used to hire smart engineers who cared about education. Pay was originally low, but they fixed that. The location is nice.

Cons

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.

1.0
Jul 7, 2015

Avoid

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good work-life balance in that people clear out of the office as quickly as possible at the end of the day. Free soft drinks and very limited quantities of free snacks. Opportunity to be smugly self-congratulatory about doing "good".

Cons

Truly stunning levels of incompetence at the executive levels. Engineering talent is bottom of the barrel. Rank-and-file keep busy with CYA. Brooklyn office is in dangerous disrepair - leaks, heat/AC issues, elevators regularly drop multiple floors or get stuck.

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