Acquia Reviews

3.8

54% would recommend to a friend

(577 total reviews)

Chris Tranquill

98% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Acquia has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 577 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Acquia employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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577 reviews
1.0
16 Dec 2015

UK office is as bad as it gets

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The open-source community behind Drupal is great and some of that culture trickles into the Reading office. You really feel and understand it more when in the US. Love the support and tech side of the company. Proximity to the centre of Reading isn't bad either.

Cons

Too many to mention but I'll give it a try. A very authoritarian culture on the sales side of things with loads of company politics. Acquia has by far the worst culture I've ever experienced at a company. It often feels like mid management is actively trying to set you up for failure. People are very rarely recognised for doing great thing and often punished for things out of their control. Don't expect much training or mentorship as they've gotten rid of everybody that provided that, either by making them redundant or by bulling them until they leave. I honestly wouldn't recommend anybody to work here. I hope the culture changed since I worked there but I highly doubt it based on the people still employed.

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Acquia Response
10y
Thank you for taking the time to write this review. Obviously disappointing from my perspective, it would be very helpful to listen first hand to your thoughts. The HR team in Reading knows how to reach me. Your positive comments about our tech staff are greatly appreciated. To your point on training, we just completed an extensive training program in Boston, flying sales and marketing teams in from around the world. We also recently announced the Acquia Academy, which is online training for both non-technical and technical roles, managers and individual contributors. Next week we are launching a “pulse” performance review program, designed to get more feedback to employees on a more consistent, more frequent basis. We are also recruiting a new head of marketing for Europe. Our head of global field is going to be in the UK in the early spring. We’ve agreed that he will spend time 1:1 with the sales team with the hope of uncovering any further issues. Tom Erickson, CEO
2.0
22 May 2025

Not what it once was

Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, amazing team mates, still has a dedication to open source.

Cons

Braindead decisions from 'leadership' with zero accountability. systematic disassembly of highly functioning teams to pursue a failing Costa Rica centre of excellence. A lack of commitment to products, fawning to analysts, whilst spreading resources too thinly is leading to half baked products that cannot compete with the market

1.0
16 Nov 2020

Meh

Recommend
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Pros

When I left the company.

Cons

Not leaving sooner than I did.

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