Pros
very nice coworkers. on occasion there are fun parties
Cons
No room to grow, plenty of nepotism, working primarily in office with strong reluctance to be remote, security is almost non-existent, management is nice until you desire to move up, want a raise, or simply are ready to move on to another company. Pay is very low.
Good luck using your PTO as taking a day off just means you're going to be behind in your work as you have no backup. This also meant that if you're a salaried employee, you had to work overtime or over weekends very often just to meet artificial deadlines making it even harder to take any PTO or sick leave.
Have seen many fellow hardworking coworkers get overlooked for promotion and instead hired someone outside the company or one of the upper management's personal friends with neither having the appropriate skills to handle the role.
Have seen annual raises to be under 5% for outstanding performances with little to no annual bonuses.
Have seen a higher up manager get fired because they attempted to make workflow across departments more efficient resulting in butting heads with other managers who were content with keeping the status quo.
The CEO is a nice guy but he's pretty hands off regarding the company and prefers to deal with the dev team. If he was more active, maybe he would've seen that a certain higher up was not right to run the operation. This higher up was known to be unprofessional even in meetings with other companies using fowl language and such. This was an attempt to emphasize that Acuity is a small company and does things "differently." Even lacked the qualifications to be in said position but they were a close friend to another higher up so once one got a job here, the other was a shoe-in.
I could keep going with other issues at the company. If they hadn't randomly sold off one of the segments of the company to keep them afloat, I can't imagine they would still exist to this day. The worst part of that segment they sold off was the employees in that group were misled with claims that their jobs were safe until after the notice came in that the segment was sold.
