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Acceleration Reviews

3.1

48% would recommend to a friend

(29 total reviews)
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Grant Keller

100% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Acceleration has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 29 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Acceleration employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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29 reviews
1.0
29 Apr 2016
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Pros

You get to work side by side with some truly talented people (don't get too excited, read the Cons now)

Cons

All those talented people will quit or be fired (the average is one person every two months), no one lasts more than a year or so. Management has created a toxic work environment. The client walks all over you, treats you with disrespect and management not only allows it, it's practically encouraged. Your time will be micromanaged and you get reprimanded if you work normal business hours; staying late everyday is required (not for managers though, they go home early). There is no respect or professionalism here. Managers are condescending bullies that only care about money. Profanity laced power-trip tantrums, I mean "motivational speeches" are all too common. If they don't like the way you talk to or look at them you might find yourself being belittled, cursed out, or even fired. Employees here are treated like resources, not like the rock stars that they are, not even like humans; clearly Acceleration believes the supply of truly talented people will never run out. Everyone is burned out. There is a line at the exit, people can't get out fast enough.

1.0
6 Apr 2016

Unprofessional work environment

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You work with very talented people. Some have great potential to work anywhere else and make more money and have decent work environment.

Cons

They don't train you properly and expect you to finish projects as you know what to do. You end up asking your coworkers and basically that's your training. There's no management, while you stay all night overtime without pay almost everyday to get approvals from your clients, your manager leaves at the dot at 6 pm waves you goodbye. Do not expect to leave at 6 pm. This is not a 9-6 job. You WILL stay till 7:30 and more every single day. You will have to deal with very rude clients, while they treat you like you are nothing, your management will allow them to do so. Very hard to get time off, even your PTO, they have limited resources and they won't give you your requested time off. Overall this was the worst place I've worked in my career.

2.0
21 Apr 2014

Awesome individuals but poor management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Very talented individuals to work with - Founders are inspiring and very involved in the business - Ability to work from home when needed - Part of WPP Digital

Cons

- Middle management poor and scatterbrained; individuals are confused about direction as it's constantly shifting - Poor allocation of resources and lack of long-term resource planning - Being a South African company, lacks company support in US (i.e. HR, IT Help desk, etc.)

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