engineer

senior engineer

project manager

designer

senior developer

Ampirical

Their benefits were excellent and the office was beautiful.  The access to advancing technology and the opportunity to grow were unlike anything I've experience elsewhere.  However, these advancements will not further your career here in terms of promotion.  

You can do little to change the rate at which you are promoted; which is based solely on years served.  In other words, you will not advanced more quickly than someone just doing the bare minimum.
You will be expected to not only do your job, but anything or anyone else's on a daily basis.  The growth you will experience here is also entirely self generated, meaning you are given the latitude to grow yourself into a better engineer, designer, etc. but the company will likely not fund much more than your time to do so (but that's worth mentioning).  

The owners are not nearly as involved as they could be and tend to focus solely on any poor marks over any number of good marks.

Management is completely overworked and will likely be of little help in actually managing your time or personal/career development (beyond a typical annual review that will likely be at least a month late including any raise).

My advice to anyone, on salary, with a family is to seriously consider other options.  The pay is not commensurate with the stress on you and your loved ones.  They will promise that the late nights are not typical and they will not ever happen again, but they will and they will get worse during the peak times a year.  Much of the remainder of the year are late nights spent putting together bid packages that have little to no information and they have even more ridiculous a deadline than the design packages!  With that being said your job is secure so long as you are good at what you do and make their clients happy.

I had high hopes for this job when I first started; it was a step up from my previous employment. The pay was better, the company was growing quickly, and it just seemed like a place I could stay at for multiple years. Less than two months in, I realized how very wrong I was.

Management is such a mess that there is no clear direction for tasks: how to do a certain thing depends on who you ask. None of them are on the same page with each other. I suggest getting everything in writing, because when you are asked why you did something a certain way by the person who told you to do it that way, and it ends up being wrong, they will deny telling you that.

Some coworkers are cool, but most are really petty; they want you to live and breathe the place without exception, even when the compensation, while good, is not good enough to make Ampirical my entire personality. I have no problem making a job a top priority in my life, but I need to be met halfway. Oh, that also brings to mind that there is an unspoken agreement that certain people can take their work home at night and do it there, but others cannot; no one tells you about this, it's up to you to figure it out if you're one of the lucky ones who is not under tight reign. 

Besides the decent pay upgrade for me, other good things are the company offers every other Friday off or half days every Friday; benefits also kick in the day you start work. This is not easy to come by at jobs, so I will give credit where it's due. But none of this makes up for the fact that my mental health was in the toilet from my second month in until I left a year later. 

I have been gone for over a month now and it is a huge relief; I keep up with a couple of my coworkers and word on the street is, it's a mess up there. Not my circus, not my monkeys.

During my time in the IT department, I found the work itself could have been enjoyable and low stress, but the management environment made it difficult. Communication and decision-making were inconsistent, particularly from leadership. There were several situations where management took the word of individuals with zero evidence as truth, and without doing any due diligence, used it against not only myself but other employees as well. I personally disproved multiple accusations with actual evidence they too could have found with minimal effort, and when this happened, they pushed it aside and later tried to bring it up again. The environment was so toxic that, in my last months with the company, everyone kept to themselves. It was an absolutely miserable experience.

I also observed that leadership decisions sometimes seemed influenced more by personal relationships than by merit, which affected team morale. In my experience, management would often be friendly on the surface but then react harshly to negative feedback that had no merit, creating a culture where trust was difficult to build.

Additionally, we were frequently asked to research tools and make recommendations, only for those initiatives to stall indefinitely. This led to wasted effort, wasted company resources, and several man-hours lost.

Overall, I believe the department could benefit from more transparent communication, consistent decision-making, and a focus on creating a genuinely supportive and professional environment. Most importantly, it could benefit from a top-down replacement of management

Being the lead in the office, a typical day will start with a small daily check in huddle with the team. Each professional has the autonomy of planning their work based on their flexible schedule. Work place culture is very interactive with brainstorming and huddles during the day on as needed bases.

I really enjoyed working for Ampirical. The people in administration as well as my peers were awesome. Since the company is still small I actually felt like a part of a family there. 

The only downside was the culture of "You better get your work done, even if it's on the weekend." It wasn't mandatory, but there seemed to be a secret agreement saying this.

Poor work life balance, need more qualified engineers to execute current work load. Internal project controls missing level of effort estimates. Project Management lacks way to update remaining hours required for completion of individual tasks. Uncontrolled project over runs, result in frequent change orders.

Ampirical has a great work-life balance and steady work. The company is growing and most of the people are great. The company seems to like to promote from within, but some managers can be out of touch with the production of certain employees. The company has a good benefit package (Minus vacation)

Love working here. Feels like a family atmosphere! A lot of help coming from top manager to all of colleague. Will have fun activities once a month. Overall great place to work for.

Extremely heavy workload. Promises of opportunity to learn and grow but you dont have the time to follow up on it. Poor management, especially in IT. Too many people stuffed into the main building.

Very little guidance and training but a lot of pettiness and arrogance, along with Nepotism and shady bid practices. Typical toxic office culture where everyone thinks they’re the smarter than everyone else. 

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