Acuity Insights reviews about "work"

- 9-5 company i.e you can put in minimal effort and get by - If you don't agree with senior management on strategies and work related topics, your path to career progression is limited - Promotions are skewed across teams - some folks get promoted extremely fast and some folks don't get promoted for years. This has also led to inflated titles for individuals who have been at the company. - Bureaucracy amongst teams - As a growing company there's definitely some "red tape" amongst teams and team members. To resolve issues, teams tend to create more processes rather than fixing the problem. - Due to the nature of the company, it can get really hard to challenge co-workers on work related tasks or decisions. - Diversity and inclusion sometimes seems like a facade. Yes, company strongly encourages hiring of minorities and embraces ethnic culture and celebrations. They also support employees speaking up on cultural movements and frequently donate to organizations that help bring cultural movements forward. However, when it comes to levelling up internally, especially for upper management, it seems like caucasian folks are preferred over minorities.

Nothing to complain about yet.

Navigating the fast growth of the company (as well as the 2022 economic climate) has been difficult. The company, like many other fast growing startups, has seen a lot of turnover. I love working remotely and for me, the fact that Acuity is remote-first is a great advantage! However, this can lead to feelings of being isolated / siloing. Slack/Zoom are not the same as just asking someone a quick question in person.

None that I can think of!

- the company requests feedback, then when given honest reviews (like some from this year) the response is to ask current employees to write more "honest" (aka: positive) reviews on here to counter. The problem is, that was an honest review that leadership and people and culture, should take seriously. - leadership lacks strong communication skills, has a hard time taking feedback and incorporating it. - Altus culture has been negatively impacted since moving remote, since a lot of our workplace culture was dependent on being in the same office and the majority of the people at Altus are genuinely amazing. Not a lot is being done about it aside from TinyPulse surveys currently, where feedback is seen as negative if it's not "everything is great!" - like any tech company, these cons are scaling problems, but the leadership team seems more interested in keeping a 4+ star rating instead of listening to the feedback and learning from the current team internally. - not a lot of growth opportunities - "we're all ops, we're all sales" - we were recently asked to "lean in" to whatever was asked of us, which caused a lot of pressure and unwarranted stress.

- Product suffers from a serious 'too many cooks in the kitchen' problem; the dev/product team is responsible for delivering solutions that aim to satisfy a massive variety of stakeholders, both internal and external (and the objectives of these stakeholders are not always aligned with one another). As such, the dev/product team has to contend with tons of noise, has to deal with rapidly shifting priorities, and often has to deliver highly customized and non-scalable solutions. There is new leadership on the tech team so there is some cause for optimism regarding these issues. - The downside of having to pitch in with various operational activities is that it could be considered a distraction from developing in one's role - The company is very vocal about DEI matters, but has conspicuously non-diverse leadership