AMX Reviews

Pros

Decent pay, great benefits, casual atmosphere. Overall the best place I have ever worked.

Cons

There are very few, some favoritism, like all companies. Some unrealistic goals.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more open minded about what people do & not if you like them personally.

Pros

The environment and people are very friendly. Everything is casual and it is fairly easy to snag upper management for a few words if you need to. Great work life balance as deadlines seem to always be fudgable. Benefits are good and atmosphere makes you feel like family. Reduced priced catered lunch. Places to take a break if you need to stop thinking for a minute (volleyball court, basketball court, ping pong and fussball tables). You get to see a lot of new technology work with most of the major hardware manufacturers, which gives some variation in task and challenges. Even the individuals who had to be laid off (after a bad quarter) were assisted by HR for months afterwards to help them get new jobs with other companies.

Cons

Its a place to feel like family.. in saying that you are appreciated but not paid for. Compensation is on the lower end but reasonable as it seems to be pretty low stress. Being a mid sized company a bad quarter for sales could mean your job though. Also project management seems to be done pseudo by committee causing feature creep and delays to be the norm. Also it seems to be a company mantra that 80% quality is good enough.

Advice to Senior Management

Strive for true quality in what is produced on the Software side to keep up with the hardware quality. Keep on trucking with sales into the educational and foreign markets.

Pros

Really great people to work with. Benefits are good. Environment is upbeat.

Cons

Engineering is prohibited from speaking to sales. What the? Employees are smarter than management. They should switch places.

Advice to Senior Management

Push decisions down to the people closest to the customers. Do your homework. Stop guessing.

Pros

Great leadership and wonderful benefits.

Cons

Currently going through a lot of corporate change.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep working on bridging the gap between IT and AV.

Pros

AMX is a wonderful place to work. Pay is good, benefits are great, and the environment is second to none. Time off is more than ample and managers are willing to work with the employees in special cases. All in all an ideal place to be employed. An excellent place if you want a stable, stress free job over the long term.

Cons

Smaller company, entrenched hierarchy of seniority. Limited opportunity for significant advancement. Raises aren't that great. There is no type of bonus or incentive structure.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't be so sales oriented and focused on a small number of players. Provide real paths for advancement and some form of structure where one can know how he will progress through the ranks.

Pros

Overall, AMX is a decent place to work. It provides a laid back environment (dress code), employess are friendly and helpful. There is a cafeteria on-site which is convenience and they provide an average benefits package.

Cons

The expectations are very long hours and if you're not willing and/or able to work that long you will eventually be let go. The company is very unorganized in their direction.

Advice to Senior Management

Too many chiefs not enough indians. Executive team needs to connect with the little people more. Overall a nice place to work, but you shouldn't force your employees to fill out the "best places to work" survey so you contiunally win.

Pros

Cool technology, Doing things that aren't common elsewhere

Cons

Never have a chance to actually finish something.

Advice to Senior Management

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