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
3.0
Nov 6, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

1. Good H-1B and green card policy; 2. Work to benefit disadvantaged populations; 3. Business is good - company expanding; 4. Good SAS training & career development programs; 5. Inclusive work environment.

Cons

1. Your life quality hinges upon the quality of your supervisor; not everyone gets assigned good managers; 2. Good work-life balance for entry-level employees, bad for senior employees; 3. Company gets paid by government for employee overtime - not employees; 4. Senior leadership hard to work with; 5. Due to aforementioned problems, high staff turnover.

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Acumen Response
5y
Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review. Please feel free to reach out to the Recruiting team or HR to take advantage of our internal recruiting.
4.0
Oct 9, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Focus on health care policy and works on Medicare and Medicaid with multiple big clients such as NIH, CMS etc.. Lots of interesting research topics that can make your work influential to the society.

Cons

Transition from small to a big company requires sufficient expertise and the supporting teams are catching up.

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Acumen Response
5y
Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review and helping us to get the word out that we have lots of opportunities at Acumen, LLC.
1.0
Oct 3, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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.
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