AlphaSights reviews

They present the job to be very strategic, a role that requires skill and intelligence. However, in reality, the job is completely administrative and doesn't require much skill or thinking. I would strongly recommend looking elsewhere, especially if you are coming from an Ivy league (or similar) school. This is a basic sales role, much like a glorified call center - where they are only looking to sell calls to their clients. They work is very mundane and administrative (constantly scheduling phone calls, sending calendar invites, searching for "experts" on the internal database and Linkedin, cold-calling throughout the day. There is no real research element in the job (unless you consider research to be doing searches on Linkedin), nor any sort of consulting. For those saying this job gives you "industry knowledge". Well - if you think speaking to an expert for 2-3 minutes gives you some major insight into an industry - sure. But, in reality, most experts see Alphasights as a middleman (which it is) and want to minimize their interaction with them - so as to speak directly with the client. Essentially, the level of industry knowledge is extremely limited, and it cursory. It is also worth noting that 99% of interactions with clients and experts happen over the phone, so if you're looking to build any client interaction skills etc. - this role will not help with that either. Additionally, given the nature of the job, you are constantly micro-managed throughout the day - and provide minor updates to managers on a throughout the day (e.g. called 10 advisors, left them a voicemail, emailed them, heard back from 1 of them etc.) Coming to "managers" - most of them have 2 years of work experience, and are not necessarily people you would typically consider mentors or look up to. Their sole aim is to sell more calls to clients, and aren't necessarily intellectually motivated. Finally, the compensation and benefits are significantly below industry standards - especially if they are trying to recruit from top schools.

Extremely mind-numbing day to day tasks - essentially a glorified call center. Your day to day consists of combing through LinkedIn for hours on end to find individuals with the right title and company, then attempting to get in touch with them through cold emailing and cold calling. The conversation you have with experts are identical and repetitive. The job is not interesting nor challenging and anyone who is actually capable of doing more gets bored at the job after ~3 months. On top of this, there is an unreasonable expectation for associates to be online at all hours of the night (sometimes past midnight) to answer client emails and calls. This is not the type of hours expected from this pay. Bonus structure is completely unfair (and many associates feel this way). Your performance is dependent on variables out of your control. The client asks for very specific types of individuals and it's out of your control whether 1) those people exist and 2) they respond to your cold-calling and cold-emailing. On top of that, you could be doing everything right and still not be able to "sell" if the client decides to close the project. Management has good intentions but are not fit to manage anyone. Associates almost automatically get elevated to manager after a 2-year tenure simply due to the fact that there aren't many who sticks around till that 2-year mark. As a result, the office is managed by 24 y/o inexperienced kids who have no idea how to properly motivate its team members. Even company culture, which I thought was one of the only pros at this job can get toxic very fast. The office is flooded by kids between ages 21-24 and feels like a bad greek life. You're expected to not only join company events but to enjoy them, leading many to uncomfortably put on a happy face and be fake. The culture of oversharing personal life is also very uncomfortable; not everyone wants to be best friends with their coworkers.