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.
