Amplify Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Smart, innovative people Good work life balance Good resources

Cons

Leadership lacking in vision Poor internal communication

Pros

Hired some really great, smart, proactive coworkers with a passion for the product. Amplify provided a very flexible work from home policy which was great for work/life balance. The office was large, bright, and located in a very desirable area.

Cons

Pay was on the lower end of comparable positions elsewhere. Senior management promoted fiefdoms and cronyism resulted in isolated development teams and a lot of back-channel misinformation and backstabbing. Friends of senior management promoted to positions of authority, driving great employees out of the company. Decision makers routinely ignored teams until late into the product cycle, turning tasks that would have been easily solved early into emergency, all-hands-on-deck nightmares.

Pros

Good cause Smart people Great atmosphere Snacks and beverages Good work life balance Awesome management

Cons

Limited growth opportunity Starting off as a temporary contractor and not knowing when it ends

Pros

great people to work with good work/life balance interesting projects focus on technology and quality noble cause

Cons

perks aren't that great but seems like management started paying attention to that not many opportunities for career growth

Pros

* Great people : solid developers, drive to improve quality of work, smart and fun to work with * Location : I live in Brooklyn so Dumbo is an easy bike commute. Actually a large % of people bikes/walks/jogs to work. * Making a difference in education, however small. Very different feeling than working for a financial company for example. There is a lot of focus on education on day to day too, everyone has opportunity to learn through series of brown bags about current trends and struggles in education, common core, etc.. * Lots of different technologies we get to play with on daily basis, not just across teams but within various teams too * movement towards vertical self sufficient teams * great work life balance. Flexible hours, ability to WFH when necessary. Much lower stress level than in a lot of other companies. say in managing your own workload

Cons

* the company is different now from where Wireless Generation was years ago in some good and bad ways. Feels like there is more focus on profitability and less on mission. Yet our product set and horizons are expanding rapidly due to access to additional funding * There is a lot of inertia within the company and resistance to change, hence improvements are slow and incremental

Pros

+ colleagues + variety of learning opportunities + work life balance

Cons

- bureaucracy - time taken to implement decisions

Pros

- talented employees who work well together - good work/life balance

Cons

- lack of leadership - poor communications - no real strategy or vision - made risky investments - no growth opportunities or development plans

Pros

good engineering culture most of the people are nice to work with good work life balance

Cons

very high turnover rate since last year lack of knowledge sharing in technology teams. some of the departments facing serious problems between product management and engineering goals terrible human resources

Pros

Great work life balance For good cause Great people Office in dumbo.. Great location Free food and outing Laid back env

Cons

Slow management No bonus Salary not up to market Technology stack is great but few bad devs have messed it up

Pros

Work life balance is definitely on the life side. You can get away with not doing anything and nobody will notice. The porch is a great place to hang out if you get bored of not doing work at your desk.

Cons

Office is run like a feudal society. Each team basically decides what to do and management has virtually no control. Getting anything accomplished there takes ages. Company has half-committed to way too many projects to handle and does not have the resources to do so. Everyone is demoralized and talk around the office constantly comes back to how awful it is to work there.