AlphaSense Reviews

SDRs that have mastered the role and proven themselves ready for promotion have nowhere to go and are undervalued-- we can go "above and beyond" expectations all we want and receive no recognition or opportunity for career advancement. There aren't enough AE, management, etc roles available for us to advance into based on the needs of the business, but leadership isn't being transparent about this. The interview process for an internal promotion is time consuming, stressful, grueling, and takes away from our ability to perform our regular jobs, hurting our numbers. The lack of transparency from management about timing and availability of promotions is unacceptable. It's a bad look for them to appear so disorganized, unaligned, and constantly change their story about when and where in the business we can expect spots to be available. I don't feel as though sales leadership (I want to be clear, NOT sales DEVELOPMENT leadership, but AE and corp/FS sales leadership) is invested in the SDRs' career growth, and sales development leadership unfortunately bears the brunt of complaints and confusion, when in reality they're just the messenger that gets shot. Sales leadership needs to get it together and go "all in" and commit to helping SDRs advance in their careers, or have enough respect to say that it's not a priority for the business so we can look for more promising opportunities elsewhere.

- Sliced up the pie when tripling the size of SDR team this year and as a result, quotas have become more or less unattainable. They expect you to hit the same meeting target with a fraction of the territory SDRs had this time last year. - No equity. What matters most is the quality of the book you've been given, not your effort or quality of work. In some areas quota is attainable. In others, it is all but impossible. Though effort always counts, it is not rewarded at AlphaSense, and therefore not encouraged. - Upper Management is either totally disconnected or does not care. Even persistent efforts to raise issue internally end up falling on deaf ears, and you are more or less stonewalled and told to "try harder". - Hired so many people that promotions are being pushed out and it is now looking like a minimum 15-month track to AE promotion. - Using large SDR force to maximize revenue before IPO and screwing them over on quota attainment. - In several areas you are forced to hound fed up prospects over and over and over due to a lack of territory and sky high expectations. Reputational repercussions for the sales team will follow if this persists.