ALTEN reviews

Everything is wrong with this company. They are so cheap you don't even get your own LinkedIn recruiter account. Or maybe it's because they know you will quit in less than a year. Recruitment is also a fancy word for what is really just personal information collection. If you're an engineer candidate don't be surprised we don't talk in details about the job descriptions Alten has for you => there aren't any ! We say we have a lot of them in different sectors but it's not true. Business Managers collect CVs they can show to clients, pretending these candidates are part of their team, so they can gain business. Alten lies to his clients and to all candidates. As recruiters, we have objectives on how many candidates we call every day. Every Friday is a one to one meeting when you need to justify your results. The targets are unrealistic, don't make sense and we all work on the same jobboards. So we just jump on any new CV we can find to reach our target, wether we have a job for you or not (usually we don't). So your day to day job is to call as many people as you can, as if you were in a call center, to trick candidates to do an interview when you have no job for them. You're wasting the candidates' time at his finest and give them pure fake hope. The working environment is also dreadful. The working hours are 9 am to 6 pm. But if you have the audacity to try to leave at 5.55 pm one day although you didn't take any small break all day, you get a nasty reminder you don't get to leave 5 minutes early as it's not professional. To sum up, if you want to keep a clear conscience and be a minimum valued, don't join Alten.

Salary: Manager or consultant, the salaries are way below industry standards for such insecure roles. The bonus looks good on paper, but no one EVER reaches even half the bonus amount, even the best of the best, read the small print and question the high targets! Also when you sign for such high targets, it gives them a premise for a future dismissal, even if your performance is above average. They will expect you to work 12-14 hours a day, which means you could be better of working at Tesco stocking shelves, as the hourly pay is comparable. Macho-predator culture: The culture in Alten LTD is based on a weird French attitude of chauvinism, self-promotion and nepotism. Bullying is swept under the carpet as jokes, and dismissing attitudes from business unit managers are encouraged. You will be told that promotions are given on the merit of exhibiting the right behaviors, which could irl range from jogging with the managing director in the morning, faking KPIs by organizing fake meetings with customers or simply claiming new account openings that never happen, as the PO never arrives. If you are diligent, hard-working and not willing to heavily self promote in the cost of others or are simply nice to others in the spirit of teamwork, don't expect to survive in such an environment. Management: Micro-management from the mid-90s. Some people even put their toilet breaks into their calendars. Every move within every account of yours, every meeting you have, every interview you do is questioned by your manager on weekly monitoring meeting. They will never trust you to do the job due to the individualistic predator KPI driven culture. The Job: Your role will NOT be anything as advertised. You do NOT have ownership of anything or any independence or entrepreneurship. You will be expected to repeat an interview script to candidates you have sourced (working as a recruiter) a minimum of 10 times a week like a robot. You will repeat the same pitch via cold calling 50-100 times a week to customers that do NOT want to do business with you due to Alten's dodgy reputation. You will be "managing" a consultant team which only consists of doing "career management" meetings every 3 months and not talking to them unless they work with one of your own clients or are in between projects. You are not a business developer or working a consultancy or "managing" your own engineering team. This is an agency disguised as a consultancy where you will be doing the work of a glorified recruitment consultant. Job Security: Do not be conned by the false premise of consultant job security on your first interview, it is a lie, you will be sacked if we cannot find you a project in the first 3 months, if you do not become best buddies with your manager or if business goes slightly down. They expect people to resign from their jobs and move countries, because they may have the opportunity at that moment. Key word is opportunity, as they might get back to you a few weeks before or a couple of months into the job, finding an excuse to make you redundant.