Moved abroad because of this company and was let down - Engineer ALTEN Employee Review

1.0
Apr 9, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Got a "nice"call when they fired me without even start working, hoping this was not the end of my relatioship with Alten. Oh how I regret being polite.

Cons

I quit a good stable job I had because of an offer at Alten, with the promise of working as a consultant at Airbus, Rolls Royce or other big company. I suspected there was something wrong when they stopped answering my e-mails and when we talked all I got was evasive answers. Arrived in the UK with a contract signed, after 45 days was made redundant because they couldn't find a project to alocate me. I was jobless in a foreign country, homeless, with my partner and a 6 months old son. Thank you for the great opportunity Alten!

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ALTEN Response
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Thank you for writing a review on Alten. I am sorry to hear about your experience. Everybody is free to make a decision to leave their current situation for something new, and I personally believe that this is how we grow, by getting out of our comfort zone. Alten has no interest in making false promises or forcing people into something they do not feel comfortable doing. In your case though, the circumstances were extremely unfortunate and I would like to apologise on behalf of Alten that you have been put in a difficult situation. To give a bit of context, the past year events with the Covid-19 outbreak have meant that our range of opportunities and business landscape changed drastically in a very short period of time. In some instances, it has meant that project opportunities we forecasted as being solid were cancelled or put on hold without much notice, leaving us with little to no visibility. At the most difficult point of the crisis, Alten had lost close to 60% of its activities. In that context, we decided to protect our current employees and prioritize them for any new project opportunity that was coming our way. This came with the difficult decision to put on hold contracts with future employees. However, I would like to assure you that before coming to such an unfortunate decision, we assessed every single option we had in order to avoid it. I take note of the fact that we should improve communication in such cases. Once again, I am sorry that you found yourself in a difficult situation and wish you all the best for the future.

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