ACT Employee Reviews about "top heavy"

Pros

Good balance of work and life. Only 7.5 hours a day & 37.5 a week. 95% of the time, those are the hours you work. On occasion you have to get that project done. But in those rare cases, you might work 50 hours. Benefits match or exceed anybody in the area.

Cons

Upper management wants to hear your ideas or how to make it better but rarely are the ideas used. It really takes a lot to grease the wheels with upper management and even then, upper management is very top heavy and very bureaucratic.

Pros

Fantastic benefits. Flex schedule. Was lucky to have a caring, engaged manager.

Cons

The communication is awful. It’s confused, inconsistent, non existent. Talent Management (HR) is inept, disorganized, and unhelpful. So many silos within the company that the left hand never knows what the right hand is doing. Ridiculously top heavy. Management doesn’t seem to know what they want, and their decisions seem out of left field. I was there less than a year and lived through 3 rounds of layoffs. Left voluntarily.

Pros

Very good and wide arrangement of benefits. Flexible hours and work from home opprotunities. New workout facility.

Cons

Very top heavy. Very siloed in both nature and structure. To many hands in the cookie jar related to ACT's vision. Not one central thought or path. No trust in own employees. Would rather trust consultants.

Pros

Good people in the IT department Nice looking campus Close to downtown Iowa City Very little overtime

Cons

Pay very far below market rate - They are making record profits, but none of it filters to the people doing the work Non-IT divisions are afraid of technology and change All new software development is being outsourced Benefits have gotten rather bad in recent years Very top heavy

Pros

Great benefits - great insurance, paid sick leave, personal days, floating holidays, vacation. Also a volunteer day and career development days. I think they are trying to move in a good direction culturally. Senior leadership seems to honestly try to make ACT a better place to work.

Cons

The structure is top heavy and communication is spotty. Don't see much progress eliminating silos, just being replaced with new ones. There seems to be little accountability and the same mistakes are repeated over and over. In a state of reorganization with little input from the mid to lower ranks. Resulting new positions open and fill behind closed doors, not always allowing for other internal candidates to apply.

Pros

The workers truly care about their work and each other. There is a great level of support amongst co-workers.

Cons

Management is focused on aquiring new companies rather than developing what they currently have. Sales is taking precident over providing support to current customers. There is no investment in employees, the company is top heavy with little concern for the worker bees

Pros

Was once a great place to work, family friendly, great benefits, etc...

Cons

Way too top heavy in senior management. Multiple layoffs, outsourcing and just unrealistic goals for staff. Covid has done quite a number on ACT, but it was in trouble way before now.

Pros

Nice campus. Hours are reasonable. Mission is admirable. Good people who have been here for a long time. Part of the community; volunteerism is encouraged. Still many people here fighting for what ACT used to be and should be.

Cons

Office politics are too intense and not what one would expect at a non-profit. They should not have promoted and hired all these additional VPs and AVPs after the new CEO was announced. Current CEO should have waited until the new CEO comes in before getting all his people in before he exits. ACT is extremely top heavy. Support areas have grown too rapidly for such a small organization. For example the HR department used to be la smaller, effective department led by a Director and now has a Senior Vice President and a newly promoted Vice President. Salaries at the top are too high for a non-profit.