ALTEN reviews

3.5

65% would recommend to a friend

(3,106 total reviews)
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Simon Azoulay

78% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

ALTEN has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3,106 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ALTEN employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Oct 27, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

it is hard to say anything good about this company

Cons

-Managers make promises when they offer you the contract but then they do not deliver on them -Engineers are put in projects they do not want to do and given no chance to progress -greedy managers who tell lies just to further their careers and lack respect for employees - Unfair pay and little chance to get a pay raise -hostile work environment -lack of company culture -Engineers are treated like slaves and not given opportunities to advance and grow -Preferential treatment is given to French employees -Often staff's level of English is poor

1.0
Aug 2, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

This is not an engineering company, They don't own anything or intellectual property for any important technical project. I don't find anything pro at this toxic organization. These so called managers are liars

Cons

They say fictive projects before joining the organization. When you join they would tell the projects are no longer. You moved in that town where the project was supposed to be and after that, you stress out where you would be moved and hard to quantify the waste of time. They would tell you to go to London for futile meetings and evaluations. If you are desperate for finding a job, maybe it is worth it because it is a quick process to join. Easy come, easy out as well. They scale up the business on fictive figures and lie to the customers. The engineers are used as the third part and you have to deliver and you might be involved in embarrassing meetings with the client when the manager says wrong stuff. If you are an engineer, your career is going to be compromised if you are an ambitious person and want to develop,

1.0
Apr 9, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Got a "nice"call when they fired me without even start working, hoping this was not the end of my relatioship with Alten. Oh how I regret being polite.

Cons

I quit a good stable job I had because of an offer at Alten, with the promise of working as a consultant at Airbus, Rolls Royce or other big company. I suspected there was something wrong when they stopped answering my e-mails and when we talked all I got was evasive answers. Arrived in the UK with a contract signed, after 45 days was made redundant because they couldn't find a project to alocate me. I was jobless in a foreign country, homeless, with my partner and a 6 months old son. Thank you for the great opportunity Alten!

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ALTEN Response
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Thank you for writing a review on Alten. I am sorry to hear about your experience. Everybody is free to make a decision to leave their current situation for something new, and I personally believe that this is how we grow, by getting out of our comfort zone. Alten has no interest in making false promises or forcing people into something they do not feel comfortable doing. In your case though, the circumstances were extremely unfortunate and I would like to apologise on behalf of Alten that you have been put in a difficult situation. To give a bit of context, the past year events with the Covid-19 outbreak have meant that our range of opportunities and business landscape changed drastically in a very short period of time. In some instances, it has meant that project opportunities we forecasted as being solid were cancelled or put on hold without much notice, leaving us with little to no visibility. At the most difficult point of the crisis, Alten had lost close to 60% of its activities. In that context, we decided to protect our current employees and prioritize them for any new project opportunity that was coming our way. This came with the difficult decision to put on hold contracts with future employees. However, I would like to assure you that before coming to such an unfortunate decision, we assessed every single option we had in order to avoid it. I take note of the fact that we should improve communication in such cases. Once again, I am sorry that you found yourself in a difficult situation and wish you all the best for the future.
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