Unfortunately, pretty much everything: - job description does not match the actual job and management knowingly does it over and over and over again, since they absolutely don't care and were not punished up till now for doing so. - the actual tasks would be not management/technology consulting, but a simple recruitment tasks - running for candidates and trying to get jobs from external customers who already know how bad reputation of Alten is - Alten in Switzerland is simply a body leasing company with an outdated business model, it does NOT have any consulting component in it. - the management is either a local bunch of people (incompetent, rather old/shortly before pension, thus desperate to stay afloat before eventually getting fired) OR opportunistic managers from outside of Switzerland with weak English/no German. In both cases, they add zero value and only boost overhead costs and will use every opportunity to micromanage you. - company willingly, systematically and constantly lies to its employees and forces Business Managers to give empty promises to consultants, knowing they will get fired if the project stops/BM does not deliver unrealistic results. - once the contract with the client is over, chances are very high (70%+) that a consultant will get fired. - absolutely insane to see that all the upper management, including those located outside of Switzerland (e.g. Italy, France etc.) keep on practicing those "tricks", bring people to the brink of burnout or simply firing BMs at short notice. - churn rate of about 30-40% of BMs per 6-12 months, highest you would ever see. Consultants would often stay for 6-12 months, depending on the project, though they would be underpaid and vacation is among the shortest in the industry.
