AlphaSights reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(2,008 total reviews)
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Max Cartellieri

79% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

AlphaSights has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,008 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AlphaSights employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
5.0
May 13, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

As a current employee that's been here around 1 year, I just want to weigh in regarding all the negative reviews that have cropped up recently. While we are no longer a start-up, we are still at a stage of growth where there a lot of issues and kinks to be worked out. AlphaSights allows people the opportunity to voice concerns and work toward enacting significant changes, and it's peoples' own fault if they're not taking those opportunities. I agree that more could have been communicated about exactly what the role entailed, but as far as I'm concerned that's an opportunity to be adaptive, flexible, and set aside entitled agenda in order to help contribute to a company's success. There's a lot that needs to be done between start-up and global powerhouse, and there are a lot of difficulties along the road. People need to recognize these difficulties in the context of what is, undeniably, an outstanding culture and an environment of very bright minds, and take steps to both efficiently handle the commercial responsibilities of the job and find the time to engage with and solve the problems that they find so repulsive. AlphaSights is not a place to come work if you expect everything to be handed to you. You need to work incredibly hard here because you have dual responsibilities - deliver our product to our clients, and help our business grow sustainably. People don't recognize that the job consists of both, and if you're not doing both, you're not doing the job!

Cons

Many cons have been expressed, but it makes sense for them to be thought about in this context.

1.0
May 11, 2015

Everything's already been said.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

In spite of the CEO sending an unbelievably immature company-wide email calling his own employees "cowards" for writing negative reviews on Glassdoor, I'm proud to see that many have finally taken the step to speak out against the toxic company culture and write honest and FAIR assessments for prospective employees.

Cons

Every constructive criticism I thought of has already been voiced by fellow employees. So I'd like to take a different take and use AlphaSights' own marketing materials to point out just how phony this company is. As of this writing, there is a picture on this Glassdoor page that shows a group of employees smiling, pointing, and even laughing voraciously at a whiteboard with a puzzling two dimensional graph. The x-axis is labelled "time" and the y-axis "$". There is a straight line with a slope of what appears to be exactly 1 that ascends into the upper-right hand corner. The area under this line is labelled "SYNERGY." What the heck? How is it that all these supposedly happy employees are so excited and bemused by this absolutely meaningless graph? Is there some sort of hidden meaning that only the brightest and best are able to discern? What does it mean? That $ will increase with time? That SYNERGY will increase $? Either AlphaSights has just cracked a brilliantly novel business strategy (and made it public to the world) or this photo, like many things shown to prospective AS recruits, was staged. I could go on, but I'm sure you'll find something to question soon enough. Words to anyone considering AlphaSights: think carefully. Very carefully.

1.0
May 9, 2015

Vacuum salesman, or Analyst?

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Note: Glassdoor reviews are required to be written by Analysts during their first month on the job, which heavily skews the ratings in favor of the company. Your first month is not nearly as indicative of your entire experience at AlphaSights. Aside from that, there are fun, ambitious, and bright people currently working here. The office is quite social as the company is fairly young in age, and there are many social events that take place in and out of the office. Can be a very "college 2.0" feel.

Cons

For good reason, there has been a mass exodus from AlphaSights in recent months. Employees are grossly dissatisfied with pay, management, hours, and the work itself. "Analyst" is a misnomer, as there is no analysis involved in this job. Employees are measured solely on the number of calls they sell and not on their overall contribution to the firm. As mentioned above, the majority of employees, including management, are in their 20s and lack significant experience in running a company. As a result, it is terribly mismanaged and unprofessional. Management is predatory towards entry level employees and ill prepared to deal with the rapid changes the firm must undergo. Overall dreadful place to work.

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