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      Acumen

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      Acumen reviews

      3.1

      30% would recommend to a friend

      (394 total reviews)

      Thomas MaCurdy

      5% approve of CEO

      22% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Acumen has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 394 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Acumen employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government & Public Administration industry (3.6 stars).

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      394 reviews
      2.0
      Jan 28, 2018

      Benefits are poor and management needs help

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Very smart co-workers - Interesting projects - Monthly lunches - Limited fruit twice a week - Great parking lot

      Cons

      - Other reviews are correct, the benefits are very poor here. People have to fight for fruit and snacks every week. If you happen to be in a meeting when the snacks, fruit, or any kind of food comes out, tough luck. - Unbalanced workload. If you are in a senior position, you will have a heavy workload. Work is not evenly distributed and taking time to update or improve a processes is not prioritized. - Limited shuttle from the Bart station. If you try to come in early or stay at work past 6pm, you effectively do not have a ride to the Bart Station. - HR does not take feedback very well. Observing their response to these reviews are a great example. Some of these reviews are very specific about the issue yet HR requests for the reviewer to talk to them in person. It seems like HR rather focus on who is unhappy than resolving the issue for everyone. - HR updates policy or change benefits without broadcasting to the employees. It is very hard to find any relevant information. For example, employee bonus policy or 4 year PTO bonus policy is unclear. Unless you know someone that has the email from that one time HR sent it out years ago, it will be very hard to figure out what the surrounding policy is. - You do not get Veteren's Day or MLK day off.

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      Acumen Response
      8y
      Hello, Thank you for your review. I am very sorry your experience with Acumen has been so unsatisfying. I can say that HR does welcome feedback but anonymous feedback is difficult to take action on. Not all employees feel the same way as the commentators on Glassdoor. The company now has an annual release of all policy updates to employees. In addition, all information can be found on our internal portal available to all employees. Please feel free to ask if there is anything you still have questions about. We take all feedback seriously and consider all suggestions and recommendations.
      2.0
      Jan 3, 2018

      Data Center

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Basic benefits, casual atmosphere, nice external surroundings - right by the water.

      Cons

      Below market pay, incompetent or hypocritical managers, very divided in terms of teams/departments (you rarely get to know anyone outside of your team or project team members), revolving door of interns/recent graduates (i.e. hire-fire model) to save money on wages.

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      Acumen Response
      8y
      I apologize for the delayed response. Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review. This information has been passed over to our HR department as we are always looking to improve.
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