AlfaTech reviews about "training"

The air conditioning, but that is a building problem. The office is in a building with the California Senate offices and so there are picketers every week, causing a building shutdown.

Lower salary, limited training options

Lack of proper training for new employees, salary should be better

If you’re reading this before starting, you’re lucky. The mechanical team in San Jose has a manager from an immigrant background who will offer an extremely low salary with the promise of a significant raise after one year (this raise will never happen—even if you earn a PE license, you’ll only be ridiculed). Once you join, you’ll receive zero guidance and will be expected to handle everything on your own. This manager has no interest in supporting or training team members and avoids responsibility at all costs (often leaving during lunch without checking messages or emails). If you’re on a project with this manager, expect them to be hands-off until a problem arises; then, they’ll deflect all blame onto you to avoid taking any responsibility. Attempts to learn or ask questions may be seen as a nuisance, and if the manager feels inconvenienced, they’ll resort to office politics to push you out. They might issue confusing instructions, deliberately assign nonsensical markups to set you up for failure, create fabricated mistakes to damage your reputation, and give you the lowest scores in your annual review, using any tactic to get you out. Multiple people have left because of this manager’s actions, yet HR has failed to investigate or take action, leaving us questioning why this behavior continues to be tolerated. I heard this manager was let go from their previous company for similar reasons, so why hasn’t HR taken any action here?

Continue the push to hire

This review is for SJ location. Management is very poor. There’s an obvious lack of knowledge by top management. During my time there they lost multiple contracts with companies midway through project due to their poor performance. These faults were merely due to poor decisions made by management. Very hostile environment with the managers who often yell at employees. President of the company is very disrespectful and I’m honestly very surprised how they get away with it. The new hires struggle due to lack of training. It’s embarrassing how the management speak to the clients and architects. In addition, the overall salaries of employees were below the industry standard. I recommend people look for other MEP companies with better work environments and more competitive salaries. I left this place for a 40% raise with a competitor.

Not really as flexible as they say they are. Top heavy especially in SF. Not enough employees. Technology and systems used is archaic. Managers need to go through harassment training because they constantly belittle employees and there's no rewards just criticism. Benefits needs lots of improvement, costs too much and not even good. Need more people in administration. Some people are overworked.