ALTEN reviews

The salaries are too low compared to any other companies in the region. Your salary will vary depending on your nationality and not your background experience. After a year you have the annual review where they make you feel like you had zero progress in order to give you a raise of 1% or not at all. (Just a fact: Many female employees didn't have a raise this year) If you don't speak French and you want to change clients this can't be the case for you, since 90% of their earnings come from 1 international client. The managers come and go, you will change manager every once in a while and of course, they don't keep track of your career goals. It is possible your own manager will contact you again on LinkedIn to offer you an opportunity because he/she doesn't even remember who you are. If you have any experience and you can land a job in another environment, just do yourself a favor and don't engage.

A common problem is business managers will say anything to get consultants in the door. And then placed them under pressure to accept projects they might not be a good fit for. When joining they promised a project that they did not secure. It was a contract that used totally different technologies to what I interviewed for. From talking to other colleagues they did this to everyone. So beware! They can be extremely unprofessional and provide very little guidance or formation. Yet they will accuse a candidate of unprofessionalism. You are expected to figure out most things yourself with little guidance. I saw one colleague nearly fired as he was not trained properly to do time sheets so he did it incorrectly. I have personally some Business Managers take a perverse pride in not responding to some mails from consultants even though some are hard working and try their best to do so. If you try ask for training or to develop yourself you can be considered a problem or simply ignored. The turnover rate is very high as even your business manager who hired you will not stay long. They regularly work until 8/9pm each night.