ALTEN reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(3,103 total reviews)
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Simon Azoulay

77% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

ALTEN has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,103 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ALTEN employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management e consulenza industry (3.5 stars).

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3K reviews
2.0
Aug 29, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Colleagues are usually young and open to make friendship outside work hours.

Cons

Low salaries and poor Contract conditions. High risk of getting bored when working at client's site. Ghost promises of career development, uncertainty that you realise after a few months in the company. Abusive contract clauses like retaining engineers by making them pay useless trainings if they quit.

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ALTEN Response
7y
Thanks for your review. We are striving to create a collaborative and inspiring environment for all our employees so I am sorry to hear about some of your experiences. As a growing company, receiving feedback is a priority in order to ensure a long lasting development and we will continue to find ways to improve. However, I wanted to address a couple of your specific concerns here. First, as ALTEN LTD matures, we are 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. Second, career development is at the core of the ALTEN model and is managed thoroughly by dedicated Career Managers ensuring the continuity of the development of each consultant. This Career Management scheme is materialized by an Integration Meeting after the start of each engineer, and then by an individual quarterly follow-up in order to ensure both your career and your project are going in the right direction. Each year is wrapped-up by a formal Annual Appraisal during which numerous topics are tackled such Skills Development, Salary, Career Progression, Training... For specific trainings requiring a significant investment from ALTEN, a mutual commitment is effectively needed as it is the case in most companies. ALTEN is covering though, the full cost of the training. Finally, ALTEN LTD is giving the opportunity to its employees to develop their talent and abilities throughout their career in one or several of our four career paths covering: Expertise, Management, Business & Support functions. The wide range of career progression possibilities enable employees to benefit from a bespoke career development. Thank you for your ongoing contribution and feedback. Please be sure we are committed to continuously improve the robustness of our structure.
1.0
Aug 3, 2016

is consultancy a good place to work? Obviously NO

Anonymous employee
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Pros

there are no reason why you should work on behalf of ALTEN UK

Cons

Everything: - lower salary; - bad carrer development; -what they need is get paid by the customer;

1.0
Jun 28, 2024

A soon-to-be-bankrupt company no one wants to work for

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are no pros besides some really nice people working there, which is not for the company to take credit for.

Cons

Couldn't have had a worse experience. Micro-management, no freedom to take even the smallest decisions as everything needs to go through an unreasonable list of approvals, managers who don't know how to manage, ridiculously low salaries, strict rules around working hour flexibility and dress code just for the sake of appearances ("fake it till you make it" style, but they never make it), redundancies and lay-offs with made-up feedback and zero transparency, denial of going through a company crisis, inability to retain good employees, business is diminishing rather than growing (with no surprise at all considering the very bad management of literally everything). I could go on and on (and I haven't even started on the senior leadership team), but the bottom line is: joining this company will be a complete waste of your precious time.

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