Traumatising, stay away! - Associate AlphaSights Employee Review

1.0
21 Oct 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Peers at the associate level are bright young professionals and you will likely make great friends (nothing quite like trauma bonding is there). If you can hack it for long enough it will build you a resilience that makes any job you have after feel like a walk in the park.

Cons

If you have any care for your quality of life or mental health then I beg you, please stay away from this company. I don't quite know how I survived the two years I worked there. The workload is insurmontable, and yet you are constantly being asked to do more (for no extra pay). The working hours are not only long (pretty much 8 to 7), you barely ever get a break throughout the day (no one ever leaves the office for coffee in the day or anything like that). You are micromanaged to the nth degree, with meetings 3 times a day to check up on how productive you have been that day, and essentially how much money you have made the company. You single handedly generate your entire annual salary in one months work but get no recognition for it. This company places no value on your human or social skills, instead only quantitative performance is credited. The top performers with no human skills get promoted to managers and are then completely incompetent when it comes to running a team of other human beings (hence why you are treated like a number rather than a person). Work from home has been restricted to Fridays only (if you're lucky and not a new joiner) and you will be policed. Have a doctor's appointment to go to? well that's just too bad, you'll have to go on the weekend! Oh and by the way, the job itself is also incredibly boring and tedious. It is essentially a fast paced sales role where your commission is dangled to you like a carrot, you spend all day on the phone cold calling experts and trying to convince your client to take a call with them, whilst trying to compete with other providers in the industry offering the same service for cheaper. I could go on and on but I will end this review here and just say that this company mistreats its talented young professionals who have come straight out of university and therefore have no benchmark to truly understand how toxic this work environment is. They do not deserve the talent they hire and will exploit every last drop of you until you find the courage to quit and run away. I cannot stress enough the consequences working at this company will have on your mental health, so please go work anywhere else but here.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

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Cons

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