Software Engineer - Software Engineer Acuity Inc. Employee Review

1.0
May 22, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

It's a job. Some coworkers are excellent. New office in New Haven with gym is a nice touch. Work-life balance is not bad if you're competent.

Cons

Compensation is borderline passable - company complains that they can't get talent. Office Locations are lousy. Marketing/management promise product releases that are impossible, engineering isn't consulted. A lot of software engineers at HQ are boneheads... Not really a technology company, but they constantly claim they are. Repeated rounds of layoffs. Bonuses/raises/gain share used to be good. Not anymore. ~1% raise last year. Woeful incompetence around management of the technology org. which indirectly caused a Class Action Lawsuit (google it). Lack of career growth opportunity. Benefits are passable at best. Expensive and poor quality health insurance. Extremely top-heavy organization.

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5.0
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Pros

The flexibility and the unlimited PTO

Cons

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2.0
Apr 27, 2026
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Pros

Fully remote, collaboration is excellent with Sales and Engineering teams. Nice people.

Cons

Onboarding was awful. Tend to turnover people frequently, always around April and October, which coincides with their fiscal year. HR people are never the same for very long. Medical benefits are ok. Questionable ethics in the Legal & Compliance Dept of all places. It's evidenced with all the legal counsel they have hired, there are more of them than there are customer service people it seems. It pays the bills, but it's not a job one should count on for long term. It seems the strategy is hire with high pay, but let go within a year. Seen it happen to many people.

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