Amelia Reviews

a. Their main product Amelia is promoted as being " a global leader in conversational artificial intelligence " - This is total lies ! My gold fish is more intelligent. b. Every few months the management tells employees that they are about to either list on the stock exchange or are about to get a huge investment ! Totally not true . . Apparently this has been going on for 7-10years. c. No no no the turn over isn't 1 billion dollars. It may be $10m . But we don't really know. d. customers pay 50-100K to run a pilot. But that's as far as it goes. When the customers realise that we don't really have an AI product that works, they cancel and sign up with Nuance, IBM Watson Google or Amazon etc. e. IPSoft recently sacked a lot of staff because they can't get investment. f. No one has ever heard of IP Soft/ Amelia - and that makes selling very very hard. g. You can't buy a paper clip without approval from your boss' boss' boss! h. No such thing as staff updates - i guess that's because they don't really have any updates. lol ! i. The demos are sooo embarrassing h. The best laugh is when you take customers through the "Innovation Center" in New York . The center is made up of a few LED screens showing videos , with either the CEO or CCO talking over it. It's so funny !! but sad.

They don't care about their employees, worse they treat them like cattle. They lie about everything and trick people into working more for the same pay under the guise of "promotion". Ah, lets see.. I'm gonna make you give up your personal life, loose sleep and develop health issues and maybe give you 2.5-3% next year. Maybe, if you please the "gods", but the "gods are never pleased. It's the biggest collection of liars and buffoons I've ever seen. They have no real product, just a bish-bash of refaced open source software held together by lazy Perl programming. There's no style, there's no taste in anything they do, everything looks and feels half witted including decisions coming from the management. The management allows nepotism, and even encourages it. The environment is toxic and feels like a tomb. Management strikes fear into employees, spies on people so no one talks anymore in fear of getting more email threats - it feels like you're in a tomb. They hire just about anybody who can barely do the work never looking at people's personalities and traits. It's like being on a bus with a bunch of weirdos and crazy people but they're all in your office - "breaking wind", burping making weird noises etc. Like a bad subway ride that just never ends. The CEO is in his own world, he thinks that he is a 19th century inventor of some sort, or an IT equivalent of Peewee Herman, gosh he looks like Peewee Herman, acts like him too. He doesn't care, I don't know if he even realizes that there are departments besides Cognitive, RND and AI. In conclusion... After 6 years of service they fire me right at the hight of the COVID pandemic with a laughable severance package that is barely enough to last for 1 month. Besides ,I've seen enough of their clients to think that I'm done with this entire industry. IT, you have lost me forever.