Pros
great peers, decent first job pay
Cons
A few colorful ways to describe AlphaSights: - A legitimate but pyramid shaped corporate structure - A glorified call center with bs promises for on target earnings - A sweat-shop for high achieving social sciences majors from top universities with NO work life balance and little WFH flexibility - A hot bed for micro-management with daily 8AM attendance meetings, weekly performance reviews, and more Performance Improvement Plans executed than grains of sand on a beach. - Adult pre-school where 30 something VPs wage psychological warfare on anxious 20-somethings to profit from their work. - A fluorescent lighting hellscape with undertones of racism and homophobia and observed sleezyness from senior leaders towards younger women. If you're considering AlphaSights - don't, it will set back your career. The ENS industry is so niche that there isn't a clear pivot and I've seen many people go through long periods of unemployment or have to take a step back in their career after even a few years of experience at AlphaSights. Some other ideas: - If you're interested in sales / customers success, go get a SaaS Sales Development Representative job and advance from there. - If you want to do marketing, apply for an intro role at an agency or in house at a larger company. - If you're interested in consulting, just study for the cases and do consulting. - If you're interested in investment, then do IB for a few years and pivot to PE or a Hedge Fund from there. - If you want to get an MBA, JD, or MD, study for the tests senior year and go straight out. Trust me, I worked at AlphaSights for 3 years and the second I stopped drinking the Kool-Aid and stood up for my own work-life balance and mental health, I was pushed deemed expendable and pushed out. A good question to ask in interviews - what percentage of the starting class still works at AlphaSights 1 year into the role?
