If you are reading this, chances are you are a senior at Vanderbilt or Colgate or UVA or any of the other great schools that AlphaSights preys on to find minions for its telemarketing sweatshop. Heed my advice: you are capable of so much more. Figure out what you truly want and don't settle for this crap. My experience here was awful beyond words and while I found something better and made it out in one piece, many of my peers were not so lucky. Please do not make the same mistake I made, I guarantee you will hate working at this company. There is absolutely zero upside to this job: *You will gain zero marketable skills as the entire job consists of harrasing people on LinkedIn by cold calling/emailing and low balling them on rate and availability to the point at which (if you have a soul) you will feel utterly disgusted by what you are doing. *Your performance is something that you have zero control over. You will get almost no responses to your continued desperate outreach (why would they respond? would you?). Those who you do deliver will probably be rejected/ignored by your client or scheduled and then canceled on last minute. Your monthly hurdle is truly impossible to reach regardless of your effort. *You will have brainless children for managers who will be constantly scrutinizing everything you do and breathing down your neck trying to get you to "perform" better even though you are already busting your behind for them and their unreasonable requests. If you do not, you will be unceremoniously fired within six months as many of my co-workers were. *Everything is insanely fast paced to the point where burnout is inevitable. This soul sucking working environment is only conducive to a high level of stress and frustration. As a result, underneath the fake smiles and false positivity, almost everyone at AlphaSights is miserable. The hours are terrible as well but you can find evidence of that on almost all other reviews.
