- Please please believe all the negative reviews here when seriously consider working in Acumen. They are all true. I have worse management stories. Most managers assigned to new hirers are fresh undergraduates and only have 1-2 years of working experience. Don’t expect them to be your mentor or care about your personal development.
- Seniority is what Acumen values. It penetrates in many aspects – voice of your opinion, raises, promotion and even office supplies. For example, they gave out new chairs based on the order of the length you’ve stayed here while supply lasts. If you have prior working experience, it is not valued and sometimes it might hurt you – depending how your young/inexperienced manager sees it. Past reviews have commented on this.
- Long working hours and low compensation are true. HR will tell you that there will be raises/promotion every six months the first 2 years you start here. This gets tricky: it depends on the date you start (there is a fixed time window for evaluation, if you miss it, you miss it) and don’t expect the raise is high, and don’t expect a promotion each time.
- Poor Communication. Non-transparency. I have seen people got moved around teams/managers without prior notice. You also won’t know what other people are doing in the same team, let alone people in other teams.
- They offer non-profit H1B sponsorship here. You also need to sign an agreement to pay penalties if you leave within xxx months/years working here after the sponsorship. Same for green card application. The GC app is slow here. Check on line how many people are in the GC list if this is something you are considering.
- Benefits are poor. One simple case to illustrate their attitudes to the employees: when they serve bakery, they cut the bakery in half, and put a sign saying that people should not take more than two pieces, and have an HR to supervisor in the room. For snacks, one piece for one person.
- One last word, every rule is very calculated here. If you have learned economics, they are trying to squeeze as much low cost as possible from their employees.
