Great focus on growth - Sr Engineering Manager Allata Employee Review

4.0
1 Jul 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Focused on professional and personal growth. Opportunities for promotion. Detailed performance review guidelines. Many different clients. Don't fit in great with this team? There will be a different one soon. Lots of learning and exploration of technologies.

Cons

Extreme detail in performance review means both lots of time spent, and a belief/culture that it is an objective measure. No performance review can be entirely objective. Consulting sometimes means losing contracts/teams/friendships through no fault of your own. Sometimes feels like whole different jobs from contract to contract. Clients expect 40 hrs, so anything done for Allata is above that. Expect working lunches or coworker reviews in the evenings. Shifting contracts can put you "on the bench". Working for Allata itself or on yourself instead of for a client can be a bit demoralizing.

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5.0
11 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is close to what I was offered in other interviews, benefits are okj, 401k match is nice. Pay ranges are transparent so I can see what I could get in next promotion, AI and traditional work (though AI-enabled) across projects.

Cons

Review process is high effort. AI tools make it a bit easier. I had never mentored before, and it has taken me a bit to understand what that means. Benefits are just ok - company pays for lowest tier HSA plan but other plans for family are expensive.

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2.0
18 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Allata is fully remote which is awesome. They also are transparent on pay per region. They had 401k match before getting rid of it and then bringing it back again in 2025. You get to work with people all other the country and the world

Cons

Pay is low. The review process is extremely time consuming and doesn’t feel very fair where if you didn’t have someone in your corner advocating for you it would be easy to stagnate. The company laid off lots of state side employees in 2024 and 2025 rather unceremoniously due to financial issues but had funds to immediately replace the jobs with near shore and offshore so was just an excuse to make more money. Like a lot of companies Allata has been obsessing with ai to the point where they think it can make you do insane amounts of work in a limited time while in reality they just crack the whip harder.

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