Acumen reviews

If you’ve been persuaded to work at Acumen, good luck. Do not spend more than a year of your life here. It is not worth your mental health, sanity, and self-respect. After working at Acumen for a year or so, it quickly became apparent that the problems at the top of the company trickle down to all of the managers. The CEO doesn't know their employees, and I have witnessed him talk very poorly about people in the company to other people in the company. Major red flag. Managers are promoted because of their technical skills and not their people skills. There are many very awkward people who may be brilliant at data analysis but do not know how to relate to other people and lead a team, and this is one of the major downfalls of the company. Work-life balance? At Acumen that doesn’t exist. You might be put on a team where you receive urgent texts at 9pm on a Friday and are made to feel bad for taking a break to eat dinner in the evenings. Don’t let Acumen try to make you feel valued or special when they offer ‘bonuses’. If this company cared about their employees they would offer appropriate benefits. At Acumen, you are not a person or even an employee, you are a cog. You’re a highly disposable cog in a machine because you can be quickly replaced by the plenty of other thirsty graduates desperate to work anywhere they can get an offer. You will be replaced by people who don’t have enough self-respect and awareness to realize they are being taken advantage of.

- 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.