What is working from home like at AlphaSights?

The monthly bonus payout can be good (IF you achieve the monthly goal which is very difficult and demanding)

- AS hires fresh grads in their early 20s with no prior experience. These people go on to become managers within 3 years. The managers micromanage you to the point that they will ask you to come to work early and leave late, Have a problem if you resist and will not give you autonomy. - The expectation is for you to put in extra hours - till 10-11pm everyday - Everyone feels entitled to provide ‘feedback’ for as little as typing loudly on the desk or not responding within 5 minutes. - My mental health really suffered during my time there and no money is worth the micromanagement and criticism. - They have certain policies that are not revealed until you join and they offer little to no flexibility in work from home. Please talk to ex employees and not currents, before joining! - A company with such a high employee turnover is a red flag. They don’t care about the employees and expect people to leave after 6 months

I've read many reviews here, mentioning that the work is monotonous/ the company is a glorified call center - nothing could be farther from the truth. In my honest opinion, this mainly comes from a few disgruntled junior associates who couldn't cut it. - You get what you put into your work, if you own your development, you will end up learning a lot of real-world soft and commercial skills, which are transferrable to general management, commercial, and account management roles - Cold calling is a part of the job (just as other BD/ sales rep roles at different companies), but you're essentially building the skillset of lead conversion and ultimately knowing who to target for any opportunities (essentially what you would do in any commercial role) - Associates are often involved in account strategy/ team operations and are given several responsibilities such as training and building and owning client relationships from an early stage in their career (unlike most companies) - You have the opportunity to network and engage with several C-level executives as experts as well as talented clients within blue chip consultancies and investment firms (the onus is on the individual to benefit from these opportunities) - With their latest compensation structure, upon success and exceeding your KPIs - you stand to gain great bonuses on top of your base (overall compensation is competitive within the market) - Collaboratively work with a young, diverse, and driven set of people who all share similar traits (the way AS hires its people is truly best in class, having been involved in the recruitment process) - Given the industry-agnostic focus, you end up learning the basics of multiple industries and understanding how things gets done in the real world (if you're truly curious and a generalist, you'll appreciate this) - Introduction of policies such as MBA sponsorships and sponsored examinations such as the CFA, CPA, etc.

- Long hours, and often it's hard to separate work and personal life given the work intensity (this is probably true for the entire ENS industry) - Misaligned practices and compensation structure for middle management versus the associate role - there is a heavier focus on the associate pool as they're the firm's revenue drivers (while this makes sense in practice, it's not a sustainable long-term practice) - Need for an improvement in the firm's shared centers in all regions to reduce the load on associates and managers - Lack of flexibility compared to other firms (especially when it comes to WFH policies or the number of ALs taken in a row) - this is due to a high focus on employee productivity - High turnover given the industry nature, which can often be demoralizing for the wider associate pool given the slow training cycle

Friends with people your own level since you are stuck in the office every day for 12+ hours. A lot of misery to bond over.

Culture is horrendous- just read these reviews. Managers don't care about you as a person. They expect you to forget about your life outside of work, harass people, and suck it up. There is no flexibility around work no matter how compelling your case. Need to leave early for the airport? forget about it. Doctor's appt, you better be responsive on slack (they do check to see if your slack status shows you are idle on the few work from home days you get per quarter). The management is so detached from the suffering of associates that they ignore the tears that are constantly shed around the office because this place makes people feel miserable, burnt out, and hopeless. The stress and unrealistic expectations, constantly moving goalposts cause people literal physical symptoms and all my friends started anti anxiety/ depression medication from working here. The monthly "hurdle" system is so toxic and you will need to work 12+ hours to occasionally get a bonus that makes your wage liveable in nyc. I hope this company goes out of business and all the associates working there finds an exit opportunity before they lose their personality and will to live. It's so hard to leave this place because to not lose your job you need to work 12+ hours a day (they are quick to notify HR if metrics aren't exceptional) and you are too brain dead and lack any marketable skills from the grunt work they have you do.

Lots of professional development opportunities

Less flexibility with work from home.

high earnings, competitive pay, young coworkers

you aren't rewarded with freedom when performing well, hours are unnecessarily long, friday optional WFH makes it barely worth it, plastic corporate culture, lack of investment in true happiness in their employees, lots of degrading cons are masked as "benefits" - you dont gain any specific or transferrable skills and unless you work and think outside of the box regarding skills you could develop, you'll find yourself at square 1 in an SDR role two years out, despite the job not even being a sales role (no, you dont get a strategy consulting gig after this). managers and vps all promoted within, some are very smart and nice but lack of external oversight hurts broadened perspectives

- WFH policy - Great company culture - Amazing insurance package

- Nothing on my mind

Fun people at times because most people are college aged (could also be a downside). The work sucks but you can trauma bond with your friends about it.

- You basically sell phone calls so understand that that's the job - Work is really repetitive and at times mind numbing - Senior management is incredibly out of touch with people on the ground. VPs worship upper management and its really strange and disconnected - Managers will micromanage you like no other. Understand that that is the type of working environment you are in - You are expected to work 8-6 (often staying later and responsive to emails/phone calls throughout the day/weekend) everyday. Fridays are WFH - Company is really inflexible. You have to always tell your team where you are/what you are doing if you are leaving your laptop (except to go to the bathroom). You are expected to log everything on your cal too - Over 50% of my starting class left in the first 8 months. They have such a retention issue.

It is hard to find one.

The role is highly repetitive. Most of your day is spent scrolling through LinkedIn, trying to find experts who match vague criteria. It’s not unusual to lose hours on a single search. Once you’ve found them, you’re cold-calling 10+ people a day to ask questions you often don’t fully understand yourself, essentially acting as a middleman with little context of the actual project. You’re also constantly following up with clients to nudge them toward selecting your experts, largely to hit your own KPIs, while competing with several other expert networks doing the exact same thing. Clients rarely view you as a partner, more as a transactional point of contact. The culture is where things really deteriorate. Micromanagement is extreme. You’re required to track and present your activity twice a day to the team, and there’s no autonomy in how you approach your work. You’re expected to execute directives without question, often under unrealistic timelines (e.g., launching a project in under 30 minutes). Response time expectations are absurd, you’re pressured to reply to internal messages within 15 minutes, even in the middle of the night, or risk being reprimanded. To top it off, the company positions the job as an exciting opportunity for recent grads, particularly targeting Master’s students from Europe with the lure of UK visa sponsorship. But the reality is far from what’s advertised. Turnover is alarmingly high, and most people leave within a few months once they realize the nature of the work and environment. In short: the role looks shiny on the surface, but don’t be fooled.