Jamf reviews

Jamf’s management is inept, their compensation is abysmal. It is embarrassing to see that this place qualifies for a “Fortune’s best to work for” company. But hey, at least one manager’s manager built a plinko board on company time to try to entertain himself with 5 dollar raffles for the sales reps who were bringing in tens of thousands of dollars of new business for the company. If you want to get promoted based on job performance and success, this isn’t the place for you. However, if you can take a corporate porking with a grin while doing your best Kevin Bacon impression, “Thank you, sir. May I have another?” then you’ll do great. Middle management is so poor that their suggestions are typically counterproductive. I wish I were joking, but they have proven repetitively that most of them can’t even successfully read a chart or graph. 

If you’re even a reasonably good employee who prioritizes tasks, and can effectively achieve your own goals, you’ll be so incredibly bored and disappointed when they pass you and all the other qualified people for a hamster that can run in the wheel. Jamf’s structure is like rowing a boat, where the managers are all sitting at the front telling each other how good of a job they’re doing, while half the employees have figured out they can do almost nothing. The other half is actually working, but the managers can’t see anything past their self-inflating congratulatory remarks to themselves. So the boat just spins in circles until the power rowers are paddling like baby ducklings. 

 If you haven no drive, no ambition, and no work ethic then you should apply. Because, with an attitude like that, you'll be in management in no time. Otherwise, avoid this place. It is the embodiment of a toxic culture disguised as “Minnesota nice.”

Jamf is not a place where people should stay more than a year or two if they want to get the best out of their career. You'll see the cracks in the walls as soon as you start talking about career advancement and promotions internally at the company. They'll tell you there is always a place for someone who pushes themselves, which is maybe true in the early days of when I started, but absolutely not true now. You'll just end up doing two jobs until they hire someone to do the job you wanted to do instead. Jamf inability to keep up with competitive pay is astonishing for how smart the employees are, which leads me to believe there is something far worse going on behind the scenes. The company prides itself on doing its best for it's employees, which it will try to do for everything except the bottom line for them. Many people who started here end up going somewhere else making 20-40% more for the exact same role, sometimes even more. Jamf uses tier based regional pay to determine your compensation. This was really the only way that pay could work, two years ago... COVID and WFH has changed that significantly by evening out the playing field, and Jamf still has yet to actually adjust to it. Lots of long time tenured employees are leaving Jamf, and those that I am aware of are all leaving with this being a MAJOR point. Jamf prides itself on it's two mission statements of "Relentless Self Improvement" and "Selflessness", which is seen by the employees every single day. They have to relentlessly self improve to keep up with the constant changing directions and demands of the company, which seem to be aimless at times. The need to be selfless to try not to care about the huge inequality of pay they'll receive for doing the same or more work as those at a different company.