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2.7

43% would recommend to a friend

(1,152 total reviews)

Steve Meirink

62% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

AML RightSource has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,152 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The AML RightSource employee rating is 27% below average for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
6 May 2021

Run!!

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Can get an entry level position with virtually no prior experience

Cons

This is my second review for this company - I found the downturn in respect and appreciation for employees over the past two years SO alarming that I just had to submit a second review! I’ve been with the company for almost 4 years and it’s become quite apparent that their tolerance for tenure caps out at about 3 years, at which point you become too expensive for the company. Being in a client services industry, it is completely reasonable that the company values meeting the needs of their clients very highly; however, AMLRS does this at the cost of the well being of their employees. You are just a body to them when they need a certain number of FTEs to satisfy client demand. They will also “request” that you work unpaid overtime, and then threaten you with corrective action when you can’t work a full 8 hour Saturday with notice on Friday at noon. You can gain a lot of experience with different clients here, because you will be moved from project to project at the drop of a hat. You will have no say in where you would like to be placed or what workflows you would like to be a part of: tenure, hard work, and loyalty be dammed! One engagement was so terrible and “ate up” employees so quickly that it became an inside joke with the managers that investigators go there to quit/leave AMLRS. Rather than trying to fix the problem (that they are clearly well aware of), management would rather grind through all of their talented and tenured employees to try and satisfy highly unreasonable client demands. Conversations with management are also feeble. And when you take your grievances to HR, they will tell you to have a conversation with your managers. As other reviews have mentioned, the company itself has seen immense growth over the past two years (acquisitions, etc.) and the CEO received a cushy $11 million bonus when the company sold, but the bottom line investigators saw ZERO benefits of this growth. Their end of year raises don’t even account for cost of living, if you’re lucky enough to receive a raise whatsoever. Seriously, it’s not uncommon to receive a 0-1% raise at end of year (seriously - run!!) Oh and the REALLY funny thing is the company sends out a weekly newsletter with shallow articles and stories about valuing diversity, mental health, and all that good stuff. In the worst way, it is just fluff. They do not care about your mental health & upper to middle management is incredibly white and incredibly male. The company did not use to be this way. The work and environment used to be incredibly flexible, which was a slight compensation for being underpaid. But recently it’s become clear that they’ve deemed micromanaging and crushing work loads to be the way. I’ve met some wonderful people working here but the bottom line is the company DOES NOT care about its employees and this is definitely not the place to come if you’re looking for a long term career, or you know, a place that doesn’t make you want to jump off a cliff. PS. Just know that any 5 star reviews from 2020 or more recent are fake lol

2.0
11 Mar 2021

A 2-star company

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Work from home the last year or so made the extremely low pay somewhat tolerable -A good "resume filler" company to gain work experience -Comparable to a 2 star hotel or restaurant. Would you stay a few nights if you absolutely had to? Sure. Would you enjoy it? No. Was it your first choice? Absolutely not.

Cons

-Disrespectfully low pay. You're essentially making less than a full-time Manager at Chick-Fil-A. -Micromanagement is used as a scientific practice - Managers will systematically switch off days leading the campaign. It will come via group chat/individual chat/company side email/client side email interchangeably. The avenue used to micromanage you is always systematic. Daily reminders of your job duties. Daily reminders of your expectations. Management needs daily reassurance that you know how to do your job. It is beyond excessive. It is pathetic. I can't express this enough - managers are very methodical and organized when it comes to micromanagement. Leaves you questioning what the motive is (hmmmm). -The work is mind numbingly repetitive. If you can copy and paste using keyboard shortcuts you already know 90% of the job. Congrats! You will use those two functions for 8 straight hours/day and ultimately 40 hours/week. -You're working in a contractor role. Banks hire this company to do the work that no one in their own AML department wants to do. They cut a check to AMLRS for our manpower, AMLRS execs take their king's share, and they leave the rest for you. You're a peasant. -Touching on that previous point again (because it's important for people to know), there are actually instances with certain banks that use AMLRS where you earn less per/hr. as a full-time contractor than you would as an seasonal intern working directly for the bank. In other words, you're extremely undervalued from everyone involved. -The bonus program was completely sunset. Incentive pay is now issued in the form of "company points" which can be used to buy things on the "company shop". The "company shop" consists of alarm clocks, phone chargers, coffee mugs, and basically anything else you'd find in a Dave & Buster's prize shop. -Promotions are only available once a year (normal companies provide promotion opportunities every quarter). The job duties for an Analyst 1 vs Analyst 2 are legitimately identical. This is not an exaggeration. They are the same position. It is a no-no talking point at the company. My pay raise from Analyst 1 to Analyst 2 was just under $100/paycheck. The promotion structure is designed to keep you employed for as long as possible for as cheap as possible. The idea behind the design is to keep you tied to the same salary for 3 years and use a title change to give off the appearance that you've been promoted with the company. This not only saves them money, but also helps inflate their retention rate. To an outsider, it appears that employees are sticking with the company and moving up the latter. But in reality it's just disguise. These "promotions" are merely just a change in job title. Brilliant!

1.0
14 Jan 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Literally the only positive thing about this company is the fact that you can document your time of misery here and slap that onto a resume in order to find another career

Cons

Reviews here say “bad culture”, I ask “what culture”? The only culture here is to stare at the ground when you pass someone. Management is clueless and the employees listening to management constantly do not understand what is needed. Office space is incredibly limited - I was sitting in a small glass box with a broken chair that after a couple of months of work made my spine feel like it had compressed five inches. What’s the day to day work like - Well. Have you ever bashed your head into the wall everyday for 8 hours? If you like doing the exact same monotonous, repetitive tasks and burning your eyes into a computer screen for 8 hours a day then this company is the place for you! In orientation I was told that this was an anti-money laundering company that takes down drug dealers and human traffickers. However, when you start out they assign you to some mundane, repetitive, workflow that has no impact on anything. Managers set a ridiculous weekly production quota while your work is heavily scrutinized. This is the type of company where you never hear about any good work you’ve done, but all minor mistakes get shoved in your face. This job will get you corporate experience, however salaries are WAY too low for anyone to have a career of more than three years.

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