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Acquity Group

Acquired by Accenture

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DYSFUNCTIONAL and TOXIC - Anonymous employee Acquity Group Employee Review

1.0
8 Mar 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

They buy beers for the office a few times a year. Standard Consultant things like a laptop, clean offices, insurance

Cons

They claim to be a "creative agency" and have opened up offices in NYC and on the West Coast (LA, SF and Seattle). They are absolutely NOT a creative place to work. Acquity promotes itself as some hip trendy savvy company. The actual working environment is very far from that. This is simply a MidWestern tech company with all of the backwards thinking that goes with it. There is a high turnover rate and they do not care about their employees. The atmosphere is TOXIC. Company have actually promoted and praised managers that have made people quit! Complete and utter lack of concern for clients. Everything is about billable hours even if the work is marginal. All they care about is money. They even belittle clients in meetings and around the office. They got written up as a top agency in Forrester because, surprise, they have a relationship with them. They get work because there is such a high demand for Internet Technology services these days that anyone with some talent (and a few good developers) around can be successful these days. So find another company to work for or work with. Here's a funny annecdote. The company solicited their employees on Facebook to write up feedback on why Acquity was a great place to work (to encourage new hires). Out of some 500+ (300+ likes) employees, only 4 gave a response. Hardly an enthusiastic reception.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
30 Aug 2011
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Pros

- Great clients, great projects - Excellent coworkers at a peer level for knowledge-work positions - Base salary was pretty okay - Despite the pressures and the faceless life of being a below-direct-level cog here, your job is actually pretty secure if you're at least adequate at what you do

Cons

Work/life balance is non-existent. You will get scheduled for several meetings and this is generally outside of your control, but you will be expected to make up ALL of that meeting time in billable work. This includes an hours-long annual company meeting. Other factors beyond your control may greatly extend your expected hours in a given week, and this stuff can even crop up as a total surprise on, say, a Friday and suddenly you are required to pull an all-nighter. Rank is everything at Acquity Group. If you are below Director level, you are a faceless, interchangeable cog. Account Managers and Engagement Managers are sometimes almost outright antagonistic toward developers (though a few of them are great). One or two will gladly throw you under the bus to protect themselves, and this sometimes involves bending the truth to do so. There is no real concept of high quality tech sales. Sales staff seemingly guess at what can be done/is possible, and then you're on the hook to deliver it.

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