Headhunting role in a Hire & Fire culture - Associate AlphaSights Employee Review

(1) The biggest issue here is the company strategy of hiring large numbers of very skilled and motivated recent grads, promising to be a caring employer but doing the opposite. During my time, many people have left due to toxic team culture, unrealistic targets and heavy micromanagement. Besides that, people will get fired during 3min Zoom calls or directly in the office and get escorted out of the building to avoid questions. I would estimate almost half of the people I started with had left within 6 months, meeting people in the office that have been there for 2+ years is rare. (2) There is a week of training towards the start but many tricky areas that do exist within the role are avoided and create problems down the line. The training primarily aims at quickly getting you to recruit advisors. (3) Achieving monthly targets is heavily dependent on the specific team and projects worked on. The targets do not get reviewed quarterly or adjusted in line with macroeconomic developments. (4) Core office hours result in at least a 45h work week, however many associates will heavily exceed that with people working after 7:30 PM being a regular occurrence. WFH is not appreciated with only Friday being a remote work day and an overall feeling that Senior Management wants people in the office to supervise and control them better. (5) Team managers are mostly in their mid-twenties with purely AlphaSights experience resulting in a very limited scope of experience. Despite the youthfulness, overall hierarchies are top-down, criticism or slightly more critical feedback isn't really appreciated (6) Work-life balance is bad. People suffer from burnout, anxiety and high levels of pressure.