Poor Compensation, No Job Security - Anonymous employee Acumen Employee Review

2.0
Jul 23, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- the employees, especially at the junior level, are incredibly kind and knowledgeable. - decent work-life balance (although this may be because they overhired and didn't have enough work for everyone) - team culture varies a lot, but many of them are good

Cons

- really poor compensation - hired everyone with a pulse for 6+ months, then abruptly laid off all junior employees with minimal severance - uses legacy technology like SAS, which is a non-transferable skill - the kind of work they do can easily be automated by AI, only security regulations have prevented this - lack of transparency between upper management & junior employees - lack of pay transparency, international employees are underpaid - forced return to office, with huge pay cut for remote work - company prefers to spend money on opening new offices in remote locations with no employees and buying parks instead of fairly compensating employees & avoiding layoffs - dependent on govt funding which has been highly variable - poor PTO policy. very two-faced: collected data about employee concerns and desire to have more holidays, then reduced number of paid holidays to 6/year

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Acumen Response
1y
We regret that your experience at AcuSPHERE did not live up to all of your expectations, yet we also appreciate the time and focus you put into sharing your perspective on Glassdoor. Your comments give us an opportunity to refine and improve upon the experience of our employees, both current and future. Best wishes to you in your professional and personal pursuits.

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