Pros
Free dental and health insurance Free lunch Your coworkers are honestly great people, most are outgoing, smart, and just fun to be around. Gym on site Modern building
Cons
Let me start by saying I used to love my job. As I said above, your coworkers are awesome and I genuinely feel that I have made some great friends by working here. That being said, alliantgroup is a perpetually toxic environment. In fact, it is so toxic that for a while the HR department ran a campaign looking for applicants with ‘grit’ and broadly advertised this on all social media accounts (including the dying platform of twitter which the company has asked high level employees to get and maintain as it is the CEOs personal preference). My personal thoughts are if you need to possess grit to maintain a job, should you really be working there? Is this not an automatic red flag? Also, while we are on the topic of HR, please do yourself a favor and click on the link that says rating trends at the top of the page. Here you will notice a large increase in positive reviews starting last summer. Around this time, HR asked employees to write positive reviews as all the negative ones were making it difficult to recruit recent college grads. I assure you this really happened and continues to happen when reviews get too negative to ensure the company can somehow manage the mass exodus of people out of there. You can normally pick these reviews out if they are written by an Associate Director or Senior Associate Director or include the buzzwords of transparency, collaboration, or investment. While the company is a ‘meritocracy’ this meritocracy has its limits. What the fine print attached to this meritocracy says is that while promotions will not be based on tenure, they will be based on who networks the best, plays the political game, and fully performs the role of the job function above them prior to being promoted. If you want to reach the next level, be sure to use the company’s cultural value buzzwords in every meeting and that promotion will soon be yours. It really doesn’t matter if you mean it or not as long as upper management believes you. I consider myself a hard worker who gave a lot to the company personally, professionally, and emotionally. However, this place has negatively impacted my life in that I regularly experience physical and mental symptoms of job burn out and constant high stress. While the pay is good, when you break out the numbers compared to the hours you work, the money is not worth the negative impact to my personal life or health.