Acquia Reviews

Pros

A "jump in and own it" attitude. Lots of smart and fun people. Interesting and complex products. Attractive office, great location. Ability to work from home when needed.

Cons

Does not match 401K or help pay down student debt. No clear criteria for advancement. Senior management lacks transparency at times at the expense of culture and cohesion.

Pros

There are quite a few amazing individual contributors although assuming most of them have left by now. If you get the right middle manager they can be amazing but if you get the wrong one beware!!!

Cons

Breaking this down into three categories but could honestly spend a good part of a day exposing the disorder: 1) The senior leader for Account Management. His pessimistic and dictatorship runs through this entire organization. If you do not sell like him or do as he says you are black balled. No opportunity for collaboration different selling approaches. Most are too scared to speak out against him but NEVER provides confidence or celebration regardless of your accomplishments. Micro-management up to the SVP level. 2) PRODUCTS ARE A COMPLETE MESS. It is well known to not sell specific products because they will churn in a year or sit on a customers shelf until they realize they are paying for a worhthless investment 3) MASS EXODUS - Almost all of the smartest and most important figures within the business have left. A couple reasons some were here for a long time and left after made their money from private equity purchase. Others are leaving because no one ever hits their numbers without a tremendous amount of luck. There have been so many departures, as a part of our head of peoples weekly email there is a section of people leaving the company. Averaging 5-15 a week. Lastly the benefits. Yikes not even remotely competitive to those in the area. NO 401K match even though company has been profitable for over 3 years and also majority investment from a PE from

Pros

100% remote for many positions and "take it as you need it" vacation

Cons

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.

Pros

- Still a couple of people left that are good at their jobs

Cons

- The benefits keep on getting worse and worse (medical is worse each year, and still no 401K matching) - Tons of quality people are leaving, and replacements either aren't being approved, or are being hired from overseas - The business model seems to be based on saving money, and not on selling product

Pros

- Plenty of opportunity for career progression, but you have to be pro active about it. Nothing is handed to you at Acquia and some people don't like that. - Pay is comparable if not better than most Boston tech companies. They do their best to retain talented workers

Cons

- This is a very transformative time for Acquia. Product direction makes sense but it is going to take a looooooong time to execute on it. - Lots of pressure from management to ultimately force product down customers throats just so expansion quotas can be met