Acumen reviews

Poor communication between departments leads to duplication of work. HR department is very new. Workers are very weary about the confidentiality of their reports to HR. In many cases, nepotism has lead to unqualified employees landing managerial positions, leading to incompetent managers in some of the company's departments. If your luck though, you may get an excellent manager, however. Just depends on the department you end up in. Primarily hires kids fresh out of college, or immigrants needing H1B status at low rates. Because of high-turn over rates, there is constant re-training going on. It would really improve the company if they hired people with more experience who planned to stay with the company long-term. Many cases of waving H1B carrot in front of those needing it, having them use up their OPT and then not providing H1B; similarly for promises of raises.

Turnover rate is high, due to the fact that management does a poor job of assigning people to project teams based on their skills and interests. Management makes decisions without inviting input from staff. There is NO formal process for performance evaluations. I was told before I was hired that it's a meritocracy, but I came to realize that people will be awarded with a raise/promotion if they are willing to spend long hours (sometimes sleeping) in the office. And after you get your raise, you better start spending even more time working. Yes, the hours are flexible, but expect to take work home with you if you want to leave the office before 7pm.