ALTEN reviews

On average, an engineer is heavily underpaid, really poor benefits, no career development, absolute lack of commitment from a management point of view. The worst aspect is related to the roles, quite often the proposed positions sound interesting but are all smoke to attract engineer. The job opportunities they brag about are all fake or mocked-up on purpose. The management has no interest in the quality of the hiring process without any care on who is hired or where they are employed; the consequence is often the total mismatch between roles and skills. They do not make the interest of the client nor the interest of the employees. When people manifest unrest Alten uses either to lie faking fancy changes that end up with similar positions or, in some more problematic cases, to harass peoples.

Countless of Cons greatly outnumbering the positives. The company is run by inexperienced Business Managers who receive minimal training, Each business manager acts their own way, and there is absolutely no strategy or structure behind the company's growth. The only training given is extremely aggressive sales methods to use both against customers and candidates. I had heard Business Managers speak to the engineers in their team in an awful manner, with absolutely no regard to their wellbeing and personal life. People with families are forced to move houses for Business managers to win short term projects, and the worse is that they are dishonest about the length of projects to convince candidates to relocate(if they do not relocate they get fired). Employment contracts are issued with little confidence about the security of the projects with external customers to secure personnel, and the contracts are cancelled even just days before the start date if the projects to do not proceed (common). Generally, all decisions are driven by business managers acting autonomously, without formal process or approval, and are purely based on increasing their annual commission. As such, people are treated as soul-less resources and their is no respect to their personal life. The worse of all is that foreign employees who have been sponsored (VISA) are treated poorly and given minimal raises, as they are basically tied in to the company. The ratings here speak for themselves, avoid even if desperate. Pay is extremely low, way below market average.