Personal growth or career development depends on your supervisor, upper management is a joke.
-Work life balance is difficult to have, since Acumen primarily works on government contracts and those usually have low budget. As a result, they don’t have enough funding to hire more people, so each person is stretched a lot.
-Leadership team is not dedicated to resolve the work life balance issue, as someone in the upper management team said that “people at senior level working 50 hours a week is normal“. That was not miscommunication, as that message was in a written form.
-You get decent-good amount of PTO, but whether you can actually use it is another question. Someone from the leadership team used to ask a person to work on an "urgent project" while knowing that person would be on 2 days PTO after NOT having taken a break for 6 months.
-Management intend to apply “quick fix” and does patches when issues occur, rather than trying to implement permanent/long run fix, especially when there are understaffed issues.
-Your experience and growth depends on your team, well, mostly your direct supervisor. If you decided to join Acumen, pray that you’ll be assigned to a good team.
-Starting salary is low.
-Benefits package is not great (but decent, especially if this is your first job).
-The H1B visa is cap-exempt nonprofit visa. Difficult to switch to for-profit companies once you are on this visa. But this helps Acumen to keep foreign workers to stay--if they provided for-profit/regular H1B visa the retention will be way worse.
-HR doesn't advocate for you. They implement what the leadership team decides. They also claim that they put together a lot of useful resources, but they rarely advertise those to employees, so you have to delve in the intranet yourself.
