AlphaSights reviews

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.

Besides everything already mentioned on this page, long hours, stress, micro management, poor management, young and inexperienced people in high up positions, etc. they promote fast (if you meet the often unachievable standards) but the VPs have no say in anything whatsoever, they are basically just a Senior Manager. AlphaSights will make you feel like a horrible person, misleading and tricking experts into engaging into insider information for a lowballed rate to feed a client that treats you like dirt on their shoe. The people they hire are too smart for this, those that realise leave quickly, and those that don't stay and get indoctrinated into the AlphaCult to perpetuate the cycle. Mostly the exit opportunities are non-existent, you learn no real skills, and will struggle, as I have to find something to go to. Add to the fact many people need a Visa, so they get trapped here struggling to get out and becoming more miserable. If your ideal resume soft skills consist of lying and harassing Senior Execs, and worshipping clients, and your ideal hard skills cold-calling and cold-emailing, then go for it, this is the place for you. If not, you are better than this sad institution.