Acumen reviews

3.1

30% would recommend to a friend

(394 total reviews)

Thomas MaCurdy

5% approve of CEO

22% positive business outlook

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
1.0
Oct 3, 2020
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

If you are lucky, your team might have decent work life balance.

Cons

Nobody's first choice is to work at Acumen. It specializes in unimportant bureaucratic work that has minimal impact. Pay is bad. The data infrastructure is a joke. Nobody who has the opportunity to leave stays much longer than a year. People who stay longer do so because they have no other choice. The office is extremely quiet and anti-social. They made employees go back in person to the office in September for absolutely no reason. While government healthcare analytics may seem like an opportunity to make a positive difference, it isn't. Most work Acumen does is of little importance and comically inefficient. Acumen's business model is fine. They aren't going out of business any time soon, there will always be more CMS or FDA contracts to win. If this is your only option, there is nothing wrong with sticking it out for a year or two. But, if you do, know this: you will learn little in terms of marketable skills or knowledge, be under-payed, and be little more than a meaningless cog in the government machine.

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Acumen Response
5y
I am sorry you misunderstood so much about Acumen. In September we invited people who wanted to come back to the office to return. Even now we are not requiring anyone to be in the office. As our employee base is growing, it is hard to reconcile that everyone quits in a year. I sincerely hope your new opportunity provides you the growth you are looking for. Wishing you the best.
4.0
Apr 15, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good place to start. Friendly environment. Smart colleagues. Make a change to the policy making.

Cons

Below market pay. Different teams have totally different styles. Some teams have no such thing as work life balance. Their turn over rate is incredibly high, since their hourly salary is incredibly low.

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Acumen Response
8y
Hello, Thank you for your thoughtful feedback. We are aware and concerned with the turnover in the company. I like the idea of considering MBA programs to bring in a mix of talents. We are enhancing working on enhancing our management team to introduce some industry best practice. We believe this will build our culture and will encourage people to commit to the company.
2.0
Mar 29, 2018

Meh.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Don't have many pros for this place.

Cons

Not a great place to work.

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Acumen Response
8y
Hello- thanks for the review.
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