Acumen reviews

-Managers can be terrible, with some in position due to cults of personality rather than creativity, ingenuity or intelligence. No manager development program. Some managers are blatantly disrespectful, dishonest, and/or sexist. -High turnover, resulting in periodic overwork -Sub-optimal performance review system that encourages backstabbing but doesn't close the information loop and provide constructive feedback. -Acumen has implemented a policy that current managers can't provide references to employees who are leaving the company. This is a huge red flag; HR is aware that the culture is bad, and the response is not to improve the situation, but rather to limit your options as you leave.

While the people are somewhat intelligent, they think they are much, much smarter than reality shows. To summarize, a lot of the people with just BA/BS (which surprisingly are on average more arrogant than the people with PhDs) are smart, but not good enough to cut it in an actual competitive environment (like econ grad school, which is what a lot hope to acheive). Senior management is an absolute disaster. They claim to be "tough and honest" while preaching a meritocracy, but unfortunately they spend more time scheming, behind people's backs instead of doing things that are just a given in other companies (example: performance evauatons, structure, adressing weaknesses directly). In addition, nepotism is a hugh problem, resulting in a large number of incompetent people in high positions. Middle management unfortunately picks up a lot of these bad habits (except for the nepotism part). Many managers are dishonest with their workers, which leads to zero growth.