A Disgrace to Education - Anonymous employee Amplify Employee Review

1.0
23 Aug 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Leaving a honest review is the only pro I have from my experience.

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.

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Amplify Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We are committed to creating a comfortable, transparent, and collaborative environment for all our employees, so we are disappointed to hear about your experience and will notify the appropriate teams.

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2.0
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Amplify has a strong mission-driven culture centered around improving educational outcomes, and there are genuinely talented, thoughtful people across design, curriculum, and engineering. The work can feel meaningful, especially when focused on accessibility and equity, and there are opportunities to influence products used at scale in classrooms. Cross-functional collaboration is not encouraged by upper management, departments are extremely silo'd, but on a peer level team members organize into meaningful action groups themselves. When teams are aligned, the impact and quality of the work can be very high. Flexible schedules and high autonomy. Positive Slack environment.

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Accessibility and compliance efforts are highly inconsistent and very much deprioritized depending on leadership and timelines, which can be frustrating for specialists trying to uphold standards. Communication and decision-making across teams can sometimes lack clarity, leading to misalignment or duplicated effort. There may be structural or cultural gaps in how feedback is received and acted on, particularly when raising concerns about quality or compliance. In some cases, this can create tension for individuals advocating for users, especially when business or delivery pressures take precedence. Upper level management needs lessons in conducting meetings that feel psychologically safe. AI product management lacks governance.

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