Hiring and Firing Business Model - Design Engineer ALTEN Employee Review

1.0
17 Jan 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

No pros in this company

Cons

1. Noneuropean Avoid this company. It just hires and then fires. 2. It has fired 60% of its employee last year. 3. No project, you are thrown out of the company. 4. Less experienced business managers will be your career manager. 5. Just Avoid this company if you don't want crisis in your career.

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ALTEN Response
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Thank you for you review. Glassdoor is an open platform enabling employees to write comments and rate their current and/or previous companies in order to give them the opportunity to improve. It is thus necessary to keep a strong level of measure and seriousness in the feedback provided. The lack of honesty and accuracy of the here above comment, cannot unfortunately be considered as a constructive feedback and the foundation of improvements. Speaking of measure and balance, I am a firm believer that everything in life is not always black and white. There is always something positive, something you learn, for any situation in life, even when you decide that something is not right for you. It is purely a matter of perspective. I am struggling to understand which point you are trying to make on your first assertion so will not answer on that one. For the rest, your second and third points are simply not true and defamatory. I would like to highlight that I am truly sorry if your experience with us was not what you expected, however spreading false information on the company is not going to solve any of it. In regards to your fourth point, at Alten we believe in giving a chance to talented people. We value competence to the same level as experience. Hence, it can indeed happen that someone’s manager has less experience (in years) than them. It does not make them any less competent at managing people. Point five: the absence, once again, of facts in that statement makes it difficult to provide an appropriate answer. If you’d like to share some more factual feedback, feel free to contact me @ laetitia.galy@alten.com. I would be happy to consider these for our continuous improvement.

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5.0
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Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

4+ years as a Business Manager at Alten, starting in Paris and now based in California and I have zero regrets. The career growth is real. You're given autonomy, your efforts are recognized, and the opportunities follow if you put in the work. The company has the network and the scale to open doors that others can't. Highly recommend for anyone ambitious and looking to build something long-term.

Cons

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