Heavily underpaid, micro managed and poor management - Anonymous employee ALTEN Employee Review

1.0
14 July 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Office location, travelling to customer sites, young team

Cons

Very outdated style of micromanaging, constantly putting unnecessary pressure on the juniors to deliver much more than the seniors. Significantly underpaid compared to the industry. very little diversity. Naming and shaming low performers on daily reporting to the whole company. No visibility on career progression. non-realistic targets set against you which your progression is assessed against

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ALTEN Response
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Thank you for your review. We value all feedback we receive in order to continuously improve our employee experience and our processes. Let's address a couple of your specific concerns here. As in most organisations, at Alten we believe in progression based on merit. We expect our employees to strive towards excellence and deliver to high standards first, to be eligible to rewards such as bonuses or promotions. The targets are ambitious, but achievable, and communicated in the most transparent manner from the very first step of the recruitment process. We actually have very good examples in our teams of people who experienced fast-track progression as they achieved or even exceeded their targets. To address your specific point regarding “naming and shaming low performers” on a daily basis, this is a not a practice we believe in. If this is something you experienced, I invite you to contact me directly to: laetitia.galy@alten.com Talking to hundreds of candidates and customers every month enables us to have an accurate vision and understanding of the market. Alten is continuously ensuring a relevant alignment between our salary policy and the UK market. This alignment is performed through the continuous collaboration of our Recruitment and HR teams. Finally, we pride ourselves in being a very multicultural and inclusive organisation, having more than 30 different nationalities present in the company. Thank you again for taking the time to leave a review, this is of great value for us to continuously improve.

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