- Top management does not listen to employees and provides mostly lip service - Questionable hiring practices. Low-rated candidates often make it past review. have had problematic, misogynistic candidates who somehow got hired. - Lack of management training for middle managers. Mostly trains junior employee up to become managers, however, very little training is provided leading to burnout and mismanaged teams in places that lead to low retention in certain teams. - Diversity efforts, while with some success, acts more like a lip service by top management instead of addressing key diversity issues like not hiring enough in certain local demographics around office areas. - Lack of clear guidance on how each employee has to perform at every level, giving too much power to (untrained) managers to provide feedback. - Weird pay structure for remote employees. You are paid a base + locality rate. If you work remote, you get paid a low flat rate regardless if you live in a high cost or low cost city, or even if you live in the same city as where an Acumen office is located. Effort by employees to rectify this issue was half-listened to and no effort by management has been made to rectify employee concerns so much so that some decided to leave when the policy took place.