Amelia Reviews

2.9

37% would recommend to a friend

(853 total reviews)
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Chetan Dube

50% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Amelia has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 853 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Amelia employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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853 reviews
1.0
10 Apr 2020

Don't, Just Don't

Recommend
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Pros

Non really, basic benefits and catering. Everything is just above the water. A lump of fake coal that's severs as an invitation to the X-mas party.

Cons

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.

1.0
21 Jul 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

HR was always great. Benefits are good.

Cons

When I was hired on in 2018, things seemed great in Chicago. The people were brilliant and everyone was friendly, positive, and collaborative. The office really functioned like a team. However, in September of 2018 there was a massive reduction in force that definitely affected the Chicago and Austin offices. This would become a very clear indication of the next two years I spent at IPsoft. Chetan Dube deserves all the credit for the downfall. Please believe me when I say I truly believe this man to have no morals or empathy whatsoever. He has absolutely no care for his employees whatsoever. Chicago was at 110 employees when I arrived in July 2018; 19 were left when my role was eliminated in July 2020. The reductions in force were continuous, affecting all US offices--including NY--despite Chetan promising the entire company in town hall meetings over and over again that "we're a family", that "we will not lose another member of the IPsoft team". None of that was true, not even for a second. I do feel relief that I am no longer an employee purely because I was becoming very unable to morally acquiesce to the awful treatment of everyone by leadership and Chetan himself. The company name is also changing in America from IPsoft, Inc. to Amelia US LLC which as of the time I left, had not been communicated to employees. This was a direct result, I think, of Chetan royally ruining the company's finances. The accounting employees and leadership wouldn't be dropping left and right if that weren't the case. The rent for offices would have been paid. The electricity bills for offices would have been paid. This company is very much in the red. I genuinely hope the good people that are left in Chicago, Austin, and New York find a way out soon and I hope that Chetan never has a restful night of sleep in his life. I'm not only placing blame on him because he is the CEO; his leadership team deserves to reckon with their wrongdoings as well--but Chetan is leading the charge in every irresponsible and reprehensible way he possibly can. This is not the company to join. Maybe in a few years once there is any semblance of stability, if the company really can provide a stable product--which Amelia is not currently--maybe it will be a good place to grow. But not now or in the near future.

1.0
13 Aug 2021

Water cooler talk

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pre Covid parties were fun, free breakfast and dinner when they had it, nice office space, annual increases were fair, 401k match would be good if they paid it

Cons

These fake reviews are something else. For a company that would talk about how Glassdoor is just “water cooler” talk during every town hall they sure seem to care now. How does a company that had almost exclusively negative reviews all of a sudden only have positive reviews? Despite mass layoffs, forcing people back to the office during a pandemic, defaulting on 401k payments, getting caught in lies, losing clients, cutting benefits, not replacing needed workers resulting in severe understaffing, under delivering on both large legacy customers and new pilot customers resulting in angry customers leaving, suing and/or not paying and now is the time all the Glassdoor reviews do a 180 for the better? Good thing all those employees from offices that don’t exist with titles that don’t exist can come on here and tell everyone how great it is but only come if you want to do great work…

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