Acuity Insurance Software Engineer reviews

- mandatory "fun", including required in-office days a few times a year. Although travel and hotels are paid for, employees are crowded together and expected to socialize all day, sometimes even forbidden from working instead. Many love this, particularly those who work with people and love doing so, but others do not, particularly those in IT and similar departments who signed on for a very different type of work - higher ups seem to dismiss certain employee concerns or deny employees opportunity to share negative feedback in some situations - positive feedback from the majority is sometimes used to drown out serious concerns that only apply to some - The DEIB program was renamed to "Belonging" and a focus was placed on celebrating how many employees feel like they belong at the company instead of listening to minorities who may not feel that way - higher ups seem to be making major reorganization and project methodology changes to "do the work better" without understanding how the work is even done, then telling people they need to "embrace change" if they complain

- Leadership is dramatically changing the culture and work environment for the worse - Many years of bandaid fixes have led to unsustainable maintenance of applications. With new initiatives, and a heavy emphasis on just pushing things through, this will only get worse - Vacation time is low compared to peer companies