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Dak in back
AMF has seen departures of a chief pilot, director of safety, the firing of a CFO, an innumerable other changes to base and mid level management. Not a stable company at the moment. This is a good place to get some turbine, but not one to make a career. If QoL had been better id have stayed. At outstation bases a you WILL fly 6 days a week. You WILL load your airplane with zero compensation for doing UPS' job. I was told by the recruiter "we don't fly weekends and we don't touch boxes." Your requests for time off will not be granted. On the plus side it's some of the most enjoyable flying you can get paid for. You'll sharpen your IFR skills very quickly, and AMF time is universally respected. If corporate got their **** together this would be a GREAT place to work. Don't expect much from corporate and you won't be disappointed.
AMF has never, and will never be a career destination for a career track pilot. It is a career destination for people who are disinterested in furthering their careers. I don't mean that as a knock although I know it comes off as such. The percentage of people that make a career of AMF or any feeder is very small, and it is especially small at AMF.
You basically said "if AMF changes everything, they would be a great place to work," well that is the case with every company that lacks career stability. The last thing I will add is that it isn't so much that AMF time is universally respected, it is that turbine multi is generally universally accepted. Nobody in my hiring team at my current job knew what AMF was, but made note that it was single pilot freight.