account executive

account manager

software engineer

project manager

solutions engineer

Acquia

There is no typical day at work; it often feels like a constant scramble to address the latest crisis or to cater to the highest-paid person in the room. In my time there, I learned a great deal about how a poorly run company and product organization operate, particularly one where leadership is primarily focused on self-preservation rather than meaningful progress. The hardest part of the job was constantly disappointing stakeholders because leadership frequently changed their minds, leading to a stagnant roadmap where nothing of real value to customers ever gets accomplished.

The workplace culture tends to reward those who stretch themselves too thin, trying to be everything to everyone, often at the cost of their own well-being. Unfortunately, even these small rewards hardly compensate for the toll it takes. Most employees, especially those in product and engineering, are on the verge of burnout, and there's a pervasive lack of camaraderie—there’s no real sense of a "team." Instead, the organization is top-down and self-serving, with little regard for collaborative or supportive work dynamics. The most enjoyable part of the job, frankly, was no longer working there.

I joined Acquia back in the end of September.  My experience after starting jobs at new companies has always been a bit of disappointment.  Generally I found the role or the company was not as exciting as I had thought during the interview process.  Acquia is the first company I've started at where my expectations were exceeded in every dimension.

Acquia has a very strong business model and is growing rapidly.  Acquia works with large companies and organizations to help them be successful with the open source Drupal platform.  They compete primarily with Adobe and Sitecore.  Acquia's subscription-based business model provides enterprises with a mission critical version of Drupal delivered via a Platform as a Service (PaaS). 

The world is moving to both cloud-native and open source platforms, and Acquia is leading the way in the CMS sector.  Adobe and Sitecore will increasingly find it difficult to compete with Acquia, explaining the company's 30% growth rate.

I've never worked at a company that had people that were as smart, engaged, and enthusiastic as the people here.  Unlike many Silicon Valley tech companies (Acquia is based in Boston), there is little no arrogance and elitism in the company culture.  Instead, people are polite, team-oriented, and fun to work with.

Acquia is the best kept secret in Silicon Valley, but as more enterprises adopt the platform to create world-class digital experiences, the company will become better known.  It's really a great place to work, I just wish I joined years ago!

Acquia has had many rounds of layoffs. They are re-hiring old people who left the company. There is no one still remaining that is knowledgeable on legacy products and platforms. Their Marketing Cloud products are losing credibility because they don't work as customers expect it. It's hard to learn and navigate. Not a whole lot of diversity. The pay is not on the high-end. The interview process is a little lengthy/challenging for the level of pay offered. 
No WFH stipend. You only get an Apple laptop. No option for PC.  Co. restructured so much and laid off teams and people, so you are stuck in a new role/position. The platform is not competitive enough in the marketplace, and customers are starting to realize, and not renewing contracts. There is nobody left to train new team members.

Typical day for Engineering: Field immediate Sev0/Sev1 issues, manage EC2 instances for large customers, learn new things about core technologies, write/improve scripts/functions/tools.

What I learned: A lot about HPC/Clustering, caching, stack architecture, Puppet automation, Ruby, etc.

Management: Well-intentioned but under duress.  Great people otherwise.

Co-workers: Exceptional.  Second-to-none in both skill and personality.

Hardest part: Outages.

Most enjoyable: Camaraderie.

typical work day:morning scrum meeting, working on ticket which could be maintaining the cloud software, checking clusters on aws, occasionally checking e-mails and slack messages. 
what I learned: ruby, AWS-Relational Database Service(RDS), AWS-CloudFormation, Sumo Logic, sumologic dashboards
management:there to help you learn and progress
workplace culture:very positive, focus on collaboration.
hardest part of the job: always having to learn new technical skills, oncall
most enjoyable part of the job:people at the company, good work/life balance when not oncall

I worked there for 4 months in a contract position as an EA covering a maternity leave for some C level upper management. The people there are top-notch and are absolutely fantastic! Everyone treated me with kindness and respect and were so pleasant to work for straight from the beginning. I would work there full time in a heartbeat if I got the chance. Everybody there was welcoming, kind, helpful, and it was a very positive work environment. The pay was also excellent. I cant comment about the benefits, obviously, because I only worked there temporarily. However, I would definitely work there again any chance I get.

Since replacing the CEO roughly two years ago, Acquia secured a sale to a private equity firm, which was definitely a positive for shareholders. Unfortunately, everything under the surface happening in engineering has been brutal. Multiple reprioritizations and organizational restructurings led to the departure of tons of very talented engineers. The Boston office is often pretty depressing. Although I love my coworkers and some aspects of my job, I can't recommend Acquia as a good place to work.

Acquia is a great place to work. The culture is open and positive, which is something that can't be taken for granted in the workforce. Upper management values their employees and wants to do the best they can to retain them by making them happy. HR runs quarterly surveys on employee satisfaction and C-level execs actually change things to accommodate feedback. Great place to work.

Acquia is a private, fast-growth company supporting enterprises that use the free and open-source content-management system Drupal. Co-founded by Drupal's creator in 2007, Acquia provides customers with software, consultation, hosting, and services to help them launch sites faster and keep them running with more confidence.

Good work place with major growth but limit by Open Source. I quickly learnt about selling and deploying Open Source. The company hired many bright people but was inpatient and revenues vs cost were flat and remain flat

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Account executive 3 salaries reported	$96,667 per year
Account manager 4 salaries reported	$89,438 per year
Software engineer 6 salaries reported	$106,167 per year
Project manager 3 salaries reported	$99,167 per year
Solutions engineer 3 salaries reported	$101,667 per year

Working at Acquia: Company Overview and Reviews

Acquia

Acquia Ratings

Popular jobs at Acquia

Salary Satisfaction

Job Seeker Tools

Employer Tools

Browse

Stay Connected