alliantgroup, LP reviews

Honestly, the first year is not all that bad. You have young, fun co-workers and not a ton of responsibility outside of training. Even when you first start, you will work a minimum of 10 hours in slow season (8:30 AM – 6:30 PM are “client service hours”) and additional hours during tax season. Once you are promoted and have more responsibility, the real misery begins. AG brings in more clients than its staff can handle. People claim the business is growing, but it’s more of a revolving door with people constantly leaving so they are always short-staffed and your work load soon exceeds the amount of hours you have in a day to complete your work. I will admit, I worked for many team leads who were laid back about coming and going for appointments or leaving early if I had something I needed to take care of or a family event to attend, but I was never able to do these things because of the insane amount of work on my plate, and my daily jam-packed calendar. AG has also taken a respectable profession and turned it into a joke. You will not feel like you are providing a benefit to your clients, and in fact you will become racked with guilt due to constantly over billing them. For example, it is common practice at AG to give a “budget” of hours for a task. You write a case study, you can bill 10 hours, even if it only took you 30 minutes to write that case study. You will feel bad billing like this, but you have to in order to get your bonus, meet your metrics and not be ranked dead last against your co-workers. And yes, they literally rank you against your co-workers based on various metrics many of which are out of your control. The rankings affect your promotions and over-all worth to the company. I could go on and on but the last thing I will say is that the managers and team leads have literally sold their soul to this company. They eat, drink, and spew AG koolaid until they are a shell of their former selves. They must become like this in order to get promoted and keep their jobs. The core values are memorized and twisted by them to throw their co-workers under the bus. For example, you will absolutely not get promoted if you can’t demonstrate the “transparency” core value which means telling on your friends if they say negative things about the company or even hanging out with ex-AG co-workers who the company now deems as toxic. It is literally disgusting. Everything will come full circle though when these managers come to you looking for a job once you’ve moved on.

Where to begin... This could be the very worst work experience I have ever had. The culture, on its face, wants the public to believe that everyone "loves" working there, and that it is just such a fun, fun, fun job that you would be so, so, so lucky to have. It could not be more of a lie. In truth, the culture is cannibalstic - masses people leave and join this firm every passing day. No one really knows when they are going to get fired, so the majority of everyone spreads and tries to believe half-truths about what a wonderful place this is to work. In reality, the company will work you to your grave, expect that you eat every meal, spend 12+ hours per day, and only have friends or significant-other relationships under the blue shining lights of the "blue a". If you value a life that exists beyond the office whatsoever - run away from any recruiter who is trying to put a thick sales pitch on this place. There are "provided" meals everyday...this is code for an underlying expectation that you eat every meal at your desk while you continue to tirelessly work. There is a "it's never enough" mentality where the ridiculous amount of work that you end up putting into each day is....never enough. The lack of organization creates daily chaos and panic. The "open work environment" is corporate propaganda for "You will sit less than 2 feet away from the next person over and have no sense of privacy whatsoever for the duration of your employment." Some lucky people get sandwiched with people on both sides. Even private discussions in their "call rooms" are rarely private. The walls are paper thin and the people who work/live at alliantgroup have an unquenchable thirst for gossip. When you leave alliantgroup - because 99% of you will in the first 1-2 years, expect to spend months looking for someone that will hire you from this company that has such a terrible reputation among its competitors, or expect to justify why on earth you ever joined this company to begin with. I could go on and on and on...bottom line: whatever job you are leaving for x, y, or z reason - multiply that times 20 and you may begin to get a notion for how terrible this place truly is.