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Amphion? honest opinions - Looking

Posted: Jul 20, 2012

I'm looking for some honest opinions on Amphion. I really need to get away from my current company and I am thinking about applying with Amphion. Can anyone tell me if they run out of work very often? Do they treat their employees well, have a good platform, and pay decently? Are they fairly flexible with schedules? I'm looking for any feedback, good and bad. I would like to know as much as possible about them before I take the time to take their test. Thanks!

I worked there years ago and really liked them. - anon

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I have no clue if they are still good but I never had any overly negative feelings about them back then. Everyone was very nice and helpful.

It is hard to say though, as these companies change so quickly and it was a couple of years ago.

I have worked for about 8 MTSOs (I know it's awful but you know, greener grass and all) and Amphion was in my top 2. I have definitely regretted moving on from them.

amphion - mt

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clunky platforms
low pay
work volume is luck of the draw

They used to pay $10/hr training time for two months. IMO, that should let you know all you need to know about them. No one needs to train for two months and if they are having you do so, it's likely to hope to keep you at least two months.

They are nice. I tried to use that at the grocery store once tho and they laughed at me.

Amphion - petesbaby

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I having been working for them for two months now. If you don't mind doing VR editing as opposed to straight transcription you might like it. I hate it. I can't seem to catch on to the editing and am not doing too well with it. It is true everyone is really nice and helpful, and that is great, but I can't pay my bills with that. I am very frustrated and trying to find something else. The $10 an hour is for the first month then you are on production after that. If I was transcribing I would be set, but editing pays only .004 cpl and I could type the documents quicker that I can edit them.

my experience - just me

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my experience with them...
trained on 5 accounts in my first 6 months due to low volume
they do not pay for spaces...I thought I could make up for this loss, I was wrong... agree with the "clunky" platform as stated by another poster.
they are fairly flexible...but you will need to be too, low volumes require a lot of flex time
Nice people...
they do outsource overseas

Well guess they changed and I no longer regret leaving!! NM - anon

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Grass Is Not Greener - Still Here

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Training time is one day with a trainer (or more if you need it), with up to 2 weeks of 100% proofing if you need it unless you can pass a QA sooner, and the 2 months of $10 an hour is only if you need it. If you exceed it by what you are typing/editing, then you move to production sooner.

In my experience, it is only slow at holidays. Aren't all places?

Overseas? No

Overseas? YES! - ANON

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Yes, Amphion does outsource some of their clients overseas. That I do know with 100% percent certainty.

Amphion overseas - Yep

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Yes...they completely changed their website, too. Used to be patriotic colors and talked about keeping the work in the US, now completely different, sterile pale blue and white, and no mention of only US based transcriptionists, as before.

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