A hostile environment to women, open source, and technical thought leadership - Anonymous employee Acquia Employee Review

I loved Acquia when I joined in the Burlington days and I was eager to learn from some of the best minds in Drupal and OSS. Fast forward several years later and it has become a very different company. Most of the thought leaders in Drupal and open source have moved on from Customer Success and Engineering and have not been replaced. The flagship product teams consider required security and package updates a feature release. Engineering leadership is comprised mostly of middle managers who started in junior technical roles in the early days of Acquia and have not improved their skillset in AWS / hosting / best practices since then, and haven't cared enough to find another job. While Customer Success does their best to both contribute to Drupal and resolve customers' Acquia product issues, it is incredibly difficult because challenges are often due to antiquated product architecture and engineering teams' ineptitude. Those who have tried to drive significant change have often been met with complacency and hostility. There are no women in technical leadership roles, and those who may have been on that path have been passed over for promotions and raises, talked down to in public forums/meetings, forced to justify their aptitude daily, and often forced to resign out of frustration because continuing to work at Acquia was hindering progress in their careers.