Amplio Reviews

3.9

60% would recommend to a friend

(67 total reviews)

Brian Jawalka

Not enough data to show CEO approval

51% positive business outlook

Amplio has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 67 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amplio employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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67 reviews
1.0
4 Jan 2022

Don't work here

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Your teammates here are great (most of them)

Cons

Put simply, the CEO and management do not value their employees enough to know how to keep them from quitting. The company has seen incredible turnover in the past year, due to mismanagement across many levels. They don't understand that these days, people are not just happy to have a job, they are looking for a company that will consider them as a whole person and not just an employee - that means not giving them the bare minimum of the national holidays and 10 paid time off days which only accumulate one day a month. The company's benefits are very very far behind what many other start ups offer these days. And even if an employee is happy by the bare minimum - it won't count after they are constantly pushed down by management, or moved around from this job to that job. This is a company run by old fashioned people that keep saying how advanced the company is. Employees are led to feel that they are cogs in the machine, and not people of actual skills with valid opinions. Management "listens" but suggestions are never considered. There are gross inefficiencies across the board, for example the company has been hiring more employees, but not giving team managers more independence and freedom to manage. Micromanaging is so large to an extent that basic decisions can't be made without CEO approval. It is suffocating and leads to burnout very quickly. Asking for a raise is like making a joke - you will be laughed at, (I actually was) and those who do get raises are thrown money at so they won't leave because management is desperate to have someone in their position. The middle managers don't have a say in anything - they are there to fill a position. This company is run by one person only, Yair Shapira. There are many many things I'm leaving out because it simply will be too long. If you want a job where you're treated like a human being and not simply seen as a worker, move on. Also this is a boy's club.

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Amplio Response
4y
Thank you for the time invested in writing your review on Glassdoor. I’m very sorry to read about your negative experience with Amplio. We value our employees’ feedback, and take the time to listen and respond seriously. Indeed, Amplio has seen some turnover during the past year. However, compared to the company's significant growth rate and relative to the market, the turnover was quite low. As you observed first hand in more than a year of working with us, Amplio is a fast-paced company. Our goal is first and foremost to help students with special needs reach their potentional using the powers of technology. As we continue to expand, grow, reach more children in need, and further evolve our technology, we also undergo restructuring and reorganization processes. These may take time to get used to, while allowing team members to evolve in various positions and grow within the company. And indeed team members have been promoted, even to VP and C-levels. In almost absolute contrast to your conclusions, our team is the core of the company. We respect and value them highly. This is why Amplio decided over a year ago to switch to a work-from-home model, where the team has the opportunity to manage their work-life balance to their liking. It is also why the company constantly reviews and upgrades its employee benefit plans as it grows. On this note, your claim that Amplio does not provide its employees the minimum of national holidays and only 10 paid time off days is simply incorrect. Amplio’s full-time employees receive significantly more than that and benefits are in line with market benchmarks. I encourage each and every team member to step forward and talk to their managers. Amplio has a wonderful group of senior management and mid-level management that can assist with most issues. If the issue remains unresolved, my (virtual) door is always open.
1.0
10 Nov 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lower level employees make this company run. Too bad management doesn’t listen to them.

Cons

Despite what the CEO says- this company is crap. The only reason they still exist is because they took advantage of schools over Covid learning loss (charging them millions of dollars). Upper management makes sales promise schools we can help when lower lever employees don’t have the tools or resources to meet the demands. Even though employees come up with creative solutions to help make our jobs more efficient the CEO and management never listen. They are solely invested in money. There is definitely illegal business practices (seeing students out of contracts or promising them things we know we can never fulfill). Management is LYING if they say they aren’t aware of this because they are the ones who force these shady business practices. There is so much micromanaging. Everyday you will be forced to log on for a 15 minute meeting where they will either talk about important changes in the company or you’ll sit there at 6:45am and listen to a presentation about citrus fruit. No employee finds these meetings useful but management doesn’t care. They actually don’t care at all what their employees think. They will ask employees what they think but if the employees say anything negative or even just constructive criticism the CEO and management get mad and take it out on the employees even when all the employees agree. The CEO just has a big ego and likes to hear himself talk and feel important. Additionally, the CEO has constantly made sexist and rude remarks to employees and tries to brush it off as “humor”. But there’s no HR person to bring this up to because all the HR staff quit and no one has been hired to replace them. All of the clients are based in America but they run the business like an Israeli company which frustrates both employees and clients. There is a big section of the company missing. There is NO ONE to help with business operations. Everything is pushed onto one person and management expects everything to be fine. You cannot grow your clients and sales team by 100% and not grow the teams that support them! The CEO only hires his friends or people he knows for top positions. The CEO and C-level management allow people to freely use the R SLUR to describe our developmentally delayed students. You can see how little they truly care about the kids they are “trying” to help because they don’t have a single person with a disability advising them. When they rebranded the company this past summer they changed the logo and pushed all the letters together. Making it incredibly difficult for people with dyslexia or other disabilities to even read the company name. When you first even go onto their website they have a little graphic of all the letters moving around quickly and randomly. Again this is super frustrating for people with disabilities to see or read. Of course Amplio didn’t even bother to test their rebranding with people with disabilities. The reason they don’t care about the kids is because the entire company is marketed to school directors and people willing to pay big money. Not actually marketed to helping students. Not to mention there is little to no benefits. You will be lucky to get 6 holidays a year in the US while the Israeli team gets over two months off. And the US team is stuck picking up the slack because Israel has better national holidays. If you ask for a raise they might give you a $0.15 raise or instead they might fire you! Who knows. Sometimes the work life balance is fine. Other times people work for 12 hours a day with no recognition for their hard work. Instead everyone is told “that’s just the way things are here”. AVOID AMPLIO. They will say whatever they can to get you in and then you will be stuck there. PS. Almost every positive review on here was either written by management, employees who have worked there for less than a month who were forced to write the reviews, or part time employees who didn’t know how bad it truly is. I know that the CEO and others will read this and try to craft a response debating everything I said but truthfully they are just doing it for show. They know of all these issues. If they didn’t it would just show their pure incompetence. None of their employees are happy or satisfied working there. I have proof of all the claims I made and I am so happy to be out of Amplio. I hope all the other current employees can find their way out.

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Amplio Response
4y
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback on Glassdoor. We at Amplio value our employees’ feedback, and we take it very seriously. As we are a rapidly growing start-up company, growing pains are bound to occur. Amplio’s employees do the important work of helping students with special needs. The different teams in Amplio are continually striving to fulfill our vision and our values. We listen to employee and customer feedback, and adjust our offering and programs in response. If any Amplio employee or former employee has any suspicion of an offense or wrongdoing, please speak with your manager and/or Amplio’s chief compliance officer, so that we may take swift corrective action. Our finances are audited by leading external financial auditors and our business is conducted within the full framework of the law.
1.0
12 Sept 2022

This Place is Garbage & Toxic

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Literally, nothing at this company is worth the time and aggrevation

Cons

Do yourself a favor and do not waste your time working here. Upper management, including the CEO, is utterly clueless about what is happening. They do not care about their "mission" of taking care of students, but rather they just simply want a paycheck from districts. I have never worked for a more unprofessional company in my entire career. Save yourself the time, hassle, and disappointment of joining this toxic place. The CEO does not care one bit about his employees and only cares about himself and his wallet. Watch this CEO try and sell this company for pennies on the dollar, rename it, and try to make another name for himself. Let's hope this does not happen!

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