Aptitive Reviews

You are assigned a mentor from day 1. This is not your manager, but rather someone that has more experience in the industry to help you build your consulting and technical skills. I meet with my mentor a couple times a month to discuss my work, struggles, and training plan. We are also given a formal review every 6 months by a variety of people including teammates and clients (this is when we do promotions as well). I have found them to be very constructive and result in clear, personalized goals. We have $3K per person dedicated to training. I'm spending mine to learn Spark (no project, but I want to start selling Databricks). We see a future demand, so I am trying to get ahead of the curve! Even though I'm on an old school SSIS project right now, I get to stay very tech forward. This is because we are encouraged to not focus too much on any particular technology stack, but rather experiment, network, and sell in any technology that is demanded by our market. I've learned everything from Powershell to R depending on the lead (and you will get a chance to network and sell early on in your career). Aptitive is great about using your natural curiosity and problem solving skills to build your breadth of knowledge. We have a lot of room for promotion at Aptitive! We are not a pyramid structure, so you don't need your manager to retire to get to the next level. In fact, your promotions are based primarily on your performance. There is even room for multiple promotions within a single year for top performers (consultants operating well above their current level). Each new level has new expectations. Associates tend to focus on building technical skills and management tends to focus on leadership/sales (although I'm doing a lot of dev too). As you move up in your career at Aptitive, you will find a good fit within a practice and have ample opportunity to pursue the training and projects that are most interesting for you and potential clients.

What sets Aptitive apart from other consulting firms is how much they care about YOU - both professionally AND personally! - and respect you. This is a firm that has an outstanding set of Benefits - Pay 100% of Health, Dental, vision premiums, Unlimited PTO, $100 helping hands monthly credit, cell phone and internet reimbursement, continuous learning through a variety of training platforms, and many more. Not only are these the best benefits, but it is also a great place to work with a variety of tasks in my everyday work life; from strategy to development to QA testing roles. All in all, Aptitive is a wondrous place to call home for my career; we all think about opening our own firm from time to time and think about what it would look like, well my ideal firm is Aptitive. They encompass all of the values and ethics that I strive for in my work life and truly allow for a fantastic work/life balance. Another awesome thing: this is a small firm with a flat organizational structure which allows me to learn and grow from an A+ group of co-workers. The Big 3 (co-founders of Aptitive) are all available anytime I need them and I can slack (online communication tool we use) them to initiate a conversation about needing a day off, help with a presentation or how best to manage the new account we have won.