AlphaSights reviews

- Management is inexperienced, incompetent, and very unapproachable. There is a handful of souls over 30 who work at the firm. Directives and feedback are given in a convoluted and inappropriate manner, and nobody has any idea how to handle even the slightest of problems. - There is no HR department or system for dealing with problems in the workplace between employees. - The work is monotonous and mind-numbing. It consists mainly of spamming hundreds of people per day on networking sites to participate in consultations or join the firm's network. The firm has been getting in trouble with professional networking outlets for abusing their licenses. The only tangible skills one can build in this job are basic phone and communication skills. - Job security does not exist. 40 new Analysts started between July and September of 2014 and only 30 remain 8 months later. The are frequent firings of those who don't hit their sales quotas and Analysts are fearful that they will not be around if they don't hit their quota each month. The firm attributes this to "natural attrition" that they pretend is common amongst companies: it's not. If every company had 25%+ of their employees leave before their first year was over there would not be very many large companies... - Almost laughable micromanaging culture instilled in employees from the very beginning due to distrust of others' work. Employees are miserable. Let people breathe. - Most positive reviews on here are due to pressure from People Operations to compensate for the company's declining rating.

- LONG hours - 8am-6pm are official hours, which they don’t tell you when you interview - The job is so draining. You essentially have to call/dm/harass other business professionals to get them to talk to you & eventually to your clients - If you’re anything other than an extrovert, AVOID THIS JOB. Too much social interaction expected of you with both the clients/experts and also your young coworkers - cause ya know, they gotta keep up appearances and organize ‘fun’ events in the workplace - Everyone is tired but pretending not to be. Generally an insanely toxic and ‘fast paced’ (derogatory) place to work. - The ‘performance pay’ is not what they portray it to be during the interview process - they drop the ball on you last minute.