Amplience Reviews

Unless you're part of the Amplience old boys' club, you probably won't stay for long. Reviews stating "great environment" are laughable..!! Management are oblivious to turbulent office morale and churn rates are sky high. People get fired if they won't assimilate, so there is an underlying atmosphere of fear across all departments, apart from the cronies and also the newbies who don't yet know any better. Unprofessionalism in senior management has to be seen to be believed but hardworking staff are treated with distrust and inflexibility. As per some of the other truthful reviews, ladies aren't treated equally and it's embarrassing. Absolute loyalty respect and deference is demanded from staff but not reciprocated, infact if you work with the leadership team prepare to put up with volatile behaviour, rudeness and raised voices on a regular basis. Note that friends of leadership are not subjected to this. There have been some talented people here and a promising product, but the company changes direction so much it's impossible to keep up. Teams usually have no say in this and don't get the information they need to work with the changes but are still expected to meet targets. Career prospects? Say goodbye to them! Job descriptions mean nothing. Personal development is not a consideration. Staff aren't given any guidance training or feedback but are harshly disciplined or fired if they wobble. Decent base salary but pay rises don't happen and agreed comp packages aren't honoured. 'Profits over people' has been a running joke which would be funny if it weren't true. The management team won't acknowledge the problems or don't care. Unfortunately there is no way for staff to raise concerns without fear of recourse... speak up at your peril. HR is here for the company, not the employees. HR also preaches about things being great, but it's a facade and I'm not sure people outside the leadership team would honestly agree. It is a fact that at least two positive reviews on Glassdoor have been written by Amplience in an attempt to displace some of the authentic reviews. Beware.

At Amplience I was constantly being told how good the culture was, and I genuinely believe that it probably used to be. But in all honesty my experience is that it’s a business with very little interest in the people working there. I was only with them slightly over a year and there were at least four rounds of redundancies, the last one being a biggie that wiped out me and a couple of dozen others. There was a lot of talk from the leadership about ‘getting back’ to the positive culture they supposedly used to pride themselves on, but no meaningful action at a structural or individual (or even human) level. They’d booted out so many excellent people, and the great ones that are still there are now, understandably, feel very uncertain of how this is all going to pan out. The manner in which all these redundancies got made was no better than a conveyor belt, and again the desperate absence of any shred of emotional intelligence caused a lot of unnecessary worry and pain. The word ‘deluded’ probably seems harsh, but it honestly feels the most appropriate, certainly based on how they routinely treat their people and what they expect from them in return (the phrase ‘dig deep’ was laughably overused, and would usually come before and/or after another culling). The upside is I met and worked with some awesome people, but 90% of them got hoofed out the same day as me. Who knows if they’ll even ever recruit again, but my honest advice would be to steer well clear. They may talk a good game but the substance, and definitely the security, is paper thin. P.s. And if you’re considering joining in a creative role then all I’ll say is that I’ve never worked in a business with less interest in, or regard for, creativity. They canned 80% of the creative team in one panicky sweep, so I wouldn’t have high hopes that you’d have a happy creative career there.