ALTEN reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(3,106 total reviews)
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Simon Azoulay

78% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

ALTEN has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,106 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ALTEN employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management et conseil aux entreprises industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Jan 17, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

No pros in this company

Cons

1. Noneuropean Avoid this company. It just hires and then fires. 2. It has fired 60% of its employee last year. 3. No project, you are thrown out of the company. 4. Less experienced business managers will be your career manager. 5. Just Avoid this company if you don't want crisis in your career.

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ALTEN Response
5y
Thank you for you review. Glassdoor is an open platform enabling employees to write comments and rate their current and/or previous companies in order to give them the opportunity to improve. It is thus necessary to keep a strong level of measure and seriousness in the feedback provided. The lack of honesty and accuracy of the here above comment, cannot unfortunately be considered as a constructive feedback and the foundation of improvements. Speaking of measure and balance, I am a firm believer that everything in life is not always black and white. There is always something positive, something you learn, for any situation in life, even when you decide that something is not right for you. It is purely a matter of perspective. I am struggling to understand which point you are trying to make on your first assertion so will not answer on that one. For the rest, your second and third points are simply not true and defamatory. I would like to highlight that I am truly sorry if your experience with us was not what you expected, however spreading false information on the company is not going to solve any of it. In regards to your fourth point, at Alten we believe in giving a chance to talented people. We value competence to the same level as experience. Hence, it can indeed happen that someone’s manager has less experience (in years) than them. It does not make them any less competent at managing people. Point five: the absence, once again, of facts in that statement makes it difficult to provide an appropriate answer. If you’d like to share some more factual feedback, feel free to contact me @ laetitia.galy@alten.com. I would be happy to consider these for our continuous improvement.
1.0
Jun 5, 2019

To avoid

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Exposure to big customers. Good work-life balance (thanks to the clients).

Cons

They don't care about you. They make promises but not deliver in them. Very long notice period. No progression. Your role is just customer's support. Salaries below the market. You don't have a real contact with Alten. They just want to make money with you. Almost no benefits, just statutory rights.

2.0
Aug 29, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Colleagues are usually young and open to make friendship outside work hours.

Cons

Low salaries and poor Contract conditions. High risk of getting bored when working at client's site. Ghost promises of career development, uncertainty that you realise after a few months in the company. Abusive contract clauses like retaining engineers by making them pay useless trainings if they quit.

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ALTEN Response
7y
Thanks for your review. We are striving to create a collaborative and inspiring environment for all our employees so I am sorry to hear about some of your experiences. As a growing company, receiving feedback is a priority in order to ensure a long lasting development and we will continue to find ways to improve. However, I wanted to address a couple of your specific concerns here. First, as ALTEN LTD matures, we are continuously ensuring a relevant alignment between our salary policy and the UK market. This alignment is performed through the continuous collaboration of our Recruitment and HR teams. Second, career development is at the core of the ALTEN model and is managed thoroughly by dedicated Career Managers ensuring the continuity of the development of each consultant. This Career Management scheme is materialized by an Integration Meeting after the start of each engineer, and then by an individual quarterly follow-up in order to ensure both your career and your project are going in the right direction. Each year is wrapped-up by a formal Annual Appraisal during which numerous topics are tackled such Skills Development, Salary, Career Progression, Training... For specific trainings requiring a significant investment from ALTEN, a mutual commitment is effectively needed as it is the case in most companies. ALTEN is covering though, the full cost of the training. Finally, ALTEN LTD is giving the opportunity to its employees to develop their talent and abilities throughout their career in one or several of our four career paths covering: Expertise, Management, Business & Support functions. The wide range of career progression possibilities enable employees to benefit from a bespoke career development. Thank you for your ongoing contribution and feedback. Please be sure we are committed to continuously improve the robustness of our structure.
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