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Acquity Group

Acquired by Accenture

Is this your company?

Stagnant organization. - Anonymous employee Acquity Group Employee Review

1.0
25 Feb 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

As with any company, the people are what make or break an organization. In Acquity's case, there are some wonderful and highly intelligent people that made the daily grind bearable. Depending on what project you are placed on and what senior member is overseeing, you can learn quite a bit about ecommerce technology in a short span of time which is very marketable right now anywhere. Unfortunately there is the likelihood you could be placed onto a poorly run project where you are thrust into the forefront of a client with little to no training so you have to learn as you go rapidly or else fail.

Cons

The company touts a "mentor" that is assigned to every new employee called a career manager which in theory is great, but in practice often hardly happens. There are many instances where new employees never hear from their career manager so they never get feedback on how they are performing or what the next step is promotion wise during annual reviews. This ties back into the lack of training and learning on the job which can be very stressful at the client site and no clear cut objectives identified to complete in order to advance in the organization professionally. It is all based on who you know in management and whether they like you or not.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
30 Aug 2011
Recommend
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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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