Pros
In spite of the CEO sending an unbelievably immature company-wide email calling his own employees "cowards" for writing negative reviews on Glassdoor, I'm proud to see that many have finally taken the step to speak out against the toxic company culture and write honest and FAIR assessments for prospective employees.
Cons
Every constructive criticism I thought of has already been voiced by fellow employees. So I'd like to take a different take and use AlphaSights' own marketing materials to point out just how phony this company is. As of this writing, there is a picture on this Glassdoor page that shows a group of employees smiling, pointing, and even laughing voraciously at a whiteboard with a puzzling two dimensional graph. The x-axis is labelled "time" and the y-axis "$". There is a straight line with a slope of what appears to be exactly 1 that ascends into the upper-right hand corner. The area under this line is labelled "SYNERGY." What the heck? How is it that all these supposedly happy employees are so excited and bemused by this absolutely meaningless graph? Is there some sort of hidden meaning that only the brightest and best are able to discern? What does it mean? That $ will increase with time? That SYNERGY will increase $? Either AlphaSights has just cracked a brilliantly novel business strategy (and made it public to the world) or this photo, like many things shown to prospective AS recruits, was staged. I could go on, but I'm sure you'll find something to question soon enough. Words to anyone considering AlphaSights: think carefully. Very carefully.
