Amplify Reviews

Cons

Where do I begin? The company makes unrealistic promises. Spends over half of the calendar year preparing for busy season and yearly remains unsuccessful. Contractors, leads, and managers depending on your department are all overworked and simply told to “deal with it”. Ego-driven environment with a ridiculous amount of inconsistency. People are fired without any regard or consideration and the only concern of higher ups is gaslighting people to make them stick around until even they are not needed anymore. A leech environment where they will drain you completely dry. A total mess in hiring structure, no real plan for repeated items that go wrong every.single.year. Too many teams to count and no one ever has a concrete answer about anything. Contractors are treated like crap and viewed as disposable. Execs dangle the promises of potential full time employment based on performance which is an absolute joke. You can give 100% and STILL be disregarded if you make the wrong person mad. I had such high hopes during my tenure; then I slowly began to notice the ‘car salesman’ talks from my peers and those above me. People’s lives, families, and job security are a joke to some. I hope in the future those that have the ability to truly change the culture actually do.

Cons

Going through 10% reduction in force (layoffs). A few corporate politicians control many things and outcomes, unfortunately. Good valuable employees/contributors are often not compensated well due to politics where the money flows to other teams or other people (less deserving). Pay-inequity within the company from dept to dept for similar positions/roles, unfair authoritative power usage in budget allocations.

Cons

My experience with Amplify has overall been great. If I have to come up with a con, I'd say that sometimes it seems collaboration on a project can be chaotic.

Cons

Top heavy inexperienced management that doesn't know how to delegate responsibility. Executives are not held accountable for failures across the organization...nope...they're promoted, and little guys are let go (recent reduction in force was not rolled out thoughtfully) Systems are TERRIBLE. For a company in the business of TECH, they should be ashamed. Bad behavior everywhere you look...unprofessional, catty, nobody seems to care and the buck is just passed... Every year, there's a new problem relating to fulfilling sales. Every. single. year. It is amazing that schools continue to purchase. Smart schools have moved on to more established publishers.

Cons

As I said, if you want this to be your main source of income, you have to look into moving into more full time positions within the company. Also, the summer positions are not too many and you will be left without a job for the summer, especially if you're new.

Cons

Hire and fire culture. They aren’t genuine about serving students and teachers. It’s hard to care about putting in 100% effort when I’m just a cog in the corporate machine.