Pros
During my time at AMS, everyone I met was genuinely lovely. I felt comfortable and happy to chat with nearly everybody I came across - everyone I worked with was genuinely very understanding and kind, especially my direct colleagues and managers. I couldn't praise them highly enough, the people who made up AMS were fantastic. Sadly, most of these people have since been made redundant. Work-life balance was great, work hours were flexible as long as you did your job, and the job itself wasn't bad either - not the most exciting in the world, but I felt like I was doing something productive and useful, and I did enjoy the creative challenges that sometimes came with it. Sadly, this job doesn't exist in the UK anymore, as they've moved all these roles overseas.
Kontras
Where to even begin... TLDR: The business has decided to cut costs by all means necessary, including gutting the TI/BI department that put them on the map in the first place. After constantly praising the TI/BI department as being the part of AMS that really set them apart from their competitors, the company decided to move nearly the entire department overseas to reduce their labour costs, but they accidentally told us their plans a year early (I wish I was making this up)! Senior management then refused to give us any further details, so most of us spent the better part of a year really stressed out, wondering when we were going to lose our jobs. 90% of the time when we asked questions during Q&A calls, the answer from the business was "I don't know", even when we were very close to redundancy. At first we were told that we wouldn't have to train our replacements, then they backtracked - but the business didn't allocate very much time for us to train them, and our replacements didn't seem very focused on learning the new vital information we were trying to teach them. Some people were able to avoid redundancy by joining the new 'Research Hub' department, but from what I've heard, the entire department's already being made redundant barely 6 months later. The entire 'transformation' just seemed incredibly poorly thought out, senior management really seemed to be flying by the seats of their pants at all times.
