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
1.0
Jun 4, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

When I joined Amplify, it was full of talented people who wanted to make a difference in education. Those people have all left, either voluntarily or through layoffs. The company is seriously financially mismanaged with a truly epic burn rate, and yet is totally disconnected from the day to day operations of staff.

Cons

- A sprawling history of cronyism. - Total disregard for taking care of existing customers. Who cares what they need? They're already locked in with a contract. - Executive bumbling as they jockey for status. - They're lumbering and slow and RFP-oriented, which means nothing you build will take into account user needs or anything else beyond getting a contract signed. - Design is a joke; promoting visual design only leads to a virtually unusable flagship product. They should be ashamed of themselves for foisting something so badly made on thousands of teachers across the country.

4.0
May 29, 2015

Overall I like it.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fantastic group of people with a great goal: To re-imagine the way teachers teach and students learn.

Cons

Too many changes in the way the company works internally.

1.0
May 27, 2015

Run. Don't walk.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexibility, though it's mostly due to management having absolutely no clue what employees are doing. Somewhat competitive salaries.

Cons

Management is terrifyingly bad. There's zero communication about team vision. Every single solitary thing is done at the last minute with zero forethought or planning. For months on end, there's no work but busywork and then there's suddenly eight months of work that must be done in two months. Management has no problems pressuring employees to work nights and weekends, vaguely promising comp time and other "perks" that are never delivered. Decision-making is done by one or two capricious people who have little to no experience teaching and refuse to listen to others who actually have clue about what it's like to be in the classroom. All in all, it's best to avoid this place if you don't want to get involved in Rupert Murdoch's wasteful, ineffective, and extremely poorly planned attempt to take over education in America. Vacation & sick leave is far below industry average. The office environment is depressing and moral is low. HR is atrocious at handling complaints. Payroll takes at least six business days to answer even the most basic of questions. Overall, this company is wildly unsuccessful, bleeding money, and losing deals. If you care at all about education, keep looking. If you're looking for a peaceful work environment, keep looking. If you're looking to be fairly well-paid but constantly stressed and feeling incredibly insecure, this is the place for you.

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