Acumen Data and Policy Analyst - Statistical Programmer reviews

3.6

26% would recommend to a friend

(5 total reviews)

Thomas MaCurdy

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26% positive business outlook

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5 reviews
1.0
Sep 30, 2021
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Pros

- Provide visa support for foreign workers - H1B is non-profit, so it's difficult to switch to a private sector but you don't need to go through the lottery process

Cons

- If you work as a statistical programmer, work is very very robotic. No room for creativity or innovation at all. You receive a list of tasks. Then your job is to create an accurate data table every now and then. Very boring job. - Data management is a joke. Everyone keeps their codes ONLINE. If anything happens to the system, you'll lose them all. - No support is provided. You are on your own. Expect that the first SAS training is the only support / guidance you can get. - Do not expect that you can work on data analysis. As it's clear in the job title, it is pretty much a programmer. You receive a specification from your team. Then you need to work on it. No analysis or interpretation as it is a coordinator's job. Creating a data table is your job as a programmer. - Again, no analytic work at all. The majority of Acumen's work is just to demonstrate the summary statistics. Mean/ median, quartlies etc. That's it. Very boring.

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2.0
Sep 20, 2021
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Pros

Fitness instructors come on-site to teach classes. Their training program is very comprehensive (but it's in SAS, which isn't a very marketable skill outside of medical data analysis), and the trainers are very kind! They are open to hiring new grads without any experience.

Cons

Employees are like drones/robots. The office noise level is "library-like." Feels semi-apocalyptic/dystopian. No creativity nor does management/leadership value it. No team morale. People are there simply to work and get paid, and go home.

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