A Trojan Horse of a Job - Associate, Client Services AlphaSights Employee Review

AlphaSights is a company that has great potential to be a great environment for their employees. The people are amazing to work with at the associate level and even sometimes at the manager and VP level, however, upper management does not take the mental, emotional, and physical health of their employees in mind at all. There are set business hours that you are required to adhere to, however at AlphaSights you are on call 24/7. Get comfortable with the idea of working 12+ hour days and weekends. Oh and you don’t get paid for it you are just expected to do it. There is no overtime pay whatsoever just the constant threat that you will lose your job. The salary is $75,000 your first year and is non-negotiable. This is not enough money to support yourself in either of their location in the US and although there is a bonus that you can work towards employees continuously say that achieving this bonus is MOSTLY out of their control. The attrition rate(Rate that people leave) is extremely high, 75%, a start class that began not even six months ago that started with 28 people is now down to 7. The constant changes in company policies creates an unstable environment where employees are expected to produce hyper growth in the company and themselves. This causes severe mental health issues in the employees and a culture that will ultimately cause everyone to want to leave the company. Despite being expected to take feedback constantly any feedback that is given by the employees to management is not taken seriously at all. Upper management has said things such as, “Being understaffed is a mindset” and “work hard so we can at least fight for you”. The company culture and managements attitude will just continue to get worse if there are not changes made to company policy and management best practices.