Dysfunctional from top to bottom - Data Engineer Amherst Employee Review

2.0
Dec 8, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* The compensation is good -- salary, benefits, PTO, remote workspace equipping. * The high pace of innovation creates learning opportunities.

Cons

* The organizational and communications structures are a mess. * Poor change management: New initiatives get urgent attention, while ongoing problems are ignored. Usually there's no sound executive authority or accountability. Business systems are frequently replaced, and favorite upper-level managers are exempted from complying with them. Process training and documentation are bad (there's no way to keep up with the changes). * There is an ethical challenge in that Amherst seeks the corporate ownership of homes (for investment), which works against family ownership (for living together). * I agree with others who say the positive reviews here don't look authentic. * "Power personality" types are favored. People tend to act conceited and wealthy.

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Amherst Response
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We appreciate you taking the time to share your input with us. We take employee and candidate feedback seriously, and continuously strive to improve our company culture based on the experiences of our current and former team members. As it relates to the ethical challenge you reference above, we want to share with you what we see as our value proposition. Due to tightening credit standards since the GFC, and most recently with historically high interest rates, many low and middle-income Americans continue to be unable to qualify for a mortgage. As a result, millions of Americans are being boxed out of this segment of the housing market and unable to access attainable single-family housing. As housing solution providers, we are providing growing families the choice of a high-quality home in communities of opportunity that they likely would not be able to access otherwise.

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Cons

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