Alight Solutions reviews

3.2

53% would recommend to a friend

(3,771 total reviews)
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Rohit Verma

68% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Alight Solutions has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 3,771 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Alight Solutions employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Administración y consultoría industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Aug 16, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

With a decent manager, your work is not too bad at this level. Learn your systems and callflows and work handles itself Set work hours, Mon-Fri 8a-8p EST. No weekend work, unless you volunteer for extra tasks. The work-life balance is very good. Once you clock out, that's it, you don't have to think about this job until the very next day when you clock in. Everything in the con section being said. That all comes from the perspective of someone who wanted the career idea they were hired on for. At the current level. I'm not confident that a growing career is possible. This company does follow procedure of hiring out for upper end roles, while basically only promoting up internally people who are already at a particular level to begin with. It's a good job if you need a job, but don't try to make your home here, it's only ever going to let you go so high, no matter how much extra you try to do.

Cons

Be prepared to be on the bottom of a totem pole. You have to take and give bad news and have absolutely no power to help in realtime. You are stuck making tickets, this is compounded by a semi-incompetent processing team, which is fully outsourced to other countries. You are lucky if you get one good agent from that end out of ten tickets, meaning you are able to get things resolved without having to push it back to them more than once. Time delays receiving and sending documentation It's difficult to tell who this company is in the service of, the employees or the companies? Re: Benefits/ Diversity / Career. They talk a good game about how they're diverse and open to growth and provide benefits. But this is all extremely generous use of those terms. Benefits are geographic-specific, diversity is in the form of their staff photos (but has no real bearing on work anyway). Career growth is going to be extremely stifled if you get good. It's a catch-22 of learning to get good at your job, to then be too skilled to let go of, or have some new hyper-specific requirement thrown at you that requires both skill and luck somehow to meet, once. You are going to be dangled many job options that somehow you just aren't a good fit for. And good luck trying for any lateral movement, they're never hiring for *you*, please ignore the quarterly herd of new hires they just brought in only for handling the end of/new plan year rush. They just can't seem to afford cost of living boosts, or assistance for people working from home to offset home-office costs during this period of inflation and record heat temperatures. But good news they've made record progress on new client acquisitions for this quarter! And here's some pictures of the new VP on vacation with his family, as a psuedo-feel good moment.

1.0
Jan 31, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

None. The mediocre benefits barely makes up for the low salary, high demands, and toxic environment. Overall compensation is extremely weak, not at all competitive. I

Cons

They are cheap. They don't invest in adequate staffing nor do they provide sufficient resources. Yet they constantly increase the performance requirements. You will be expected to deliver on service agreements that are unobtainable and therefore hinder our business relationships, as clients quickly recognize that the expectations set can't be met. Alight is known to its clients for overselling and underperforming. Unsurprisingly, you will be overworked and experience daily high levels of stress trying to make up for the lack of resources. This environment will put you at a high risk of burnout. I've witnessed too many mental breakdowns. Trust me, it's not worth it. Alight was formed in May 2017 after the acquisition of the benefits outsourcing department of Aon Hewitt by private equity funds - Blackstone Group L.P. If you're not familiar with this private equity firm, I highly suggest you look them up as it will help you understand the kind of controversial business strategies they're known for.

2.0
Dec 19, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people I worked with in my immediate area kept me there for more than a decade. If it weren't for them, I would have left in early 2000's. Benefits were really the only dollar associated value that was as good or better than most other companies. Work from home is a viable option for most.

Cons

If you are salaried, prepare to work 60+ hours per week on the regular and you will be given more and more responsibilities with little to no pay increases(2% pay increases year over year were the norm for the last 10-15 years - I should know, I was a director and lead directly or indirectly 100's of colleagues over the years). Work/life balance is preached - NEVER practiced. When my parent passed away I was away for 5 days and came back to all the work that I had when I left, nothing was transitioned and work had piled up. I worked 80 hours the next week to get caught back up and was given little to no support or sympathy from my manager who only cared that I was back to do the work. Emails were sent to me WHILE I was on leave for things to do when I got back which would notify me constantly on my phone during a time where I was trying to field calls/emails from family and friends. This was extremely insensitive and tasteless. When I came back from bereavement leave several of my co-workers informed me that they were instructed to "leave things" for when I got back. The amount of talking behind other colleagues backs was what became the final straw for me. The culture from Aon(which was/is a great company) did NOT translate to Alight and is why this company goes through CEO's like nobody's business. They are on their 4th or 5th CEO in the last 4 years. It's unreal. Other than good, not great, medical benefits - there is nothing going for this company. My final straw was when my last manager informed me that I had to lie to the client about why we failed to meet a service level contractual requirement that would have caused a 10K monthly penalty back to the client. I was told - "inform the client that we met the SLA or I'll find someone who will(you'll be let go)". In hindsight I should have reached out to HR, but unfortunately the HR lead was best friends with my manager, so I felt trapped. It's the good ole boys/girls club there for sure and they will watch out for one another above all else - toxicity above and beyond. Thank goodness I got out and haven't been this happy in my career since leaving. I hope for those that I know that still work there that things turn around quickly with this latest CEO, but it's going to take someone very patient and brilliant to turn around this company.

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