Frozen pay, no support, lack of professionalism - Senior Consultant ALTEN Employee Review

Thank you for you review. We are striving to create a collaborative and inspiring environment for all our employees so I am sorry to hear about your experience. As a growing company, receiving feedback is a priority in order to ensure a long lasting development, and we will continue to find ways to improve. I would like to address a few of your specific points here. When it comes to project change, this is a discussion that needs to take place with the career and account managers with as much anticipation as possible. Indeed, we are supporting our consultants willing to discover new horizons, but it is important to bear in mind that organizing a change of project has many implications and cannot unfortunately happen overnight. We will always take into account the consultants expectations, however, the very nature of our business means we are reliant on opportunities coming up with our clients and prospects, which might affect the timing for a project change. It seems you did not have the best experience of interacting with Business Managers. At Alten, Business Managers are entrepreneurs. They are in charge of “a company in the company”, their Business Unit. As entrepreneurs, they are encouraged to create positive and virtuous cycles and first and foremost, to face their responsibilities. They have no interest in "stabbing their consultants in the back” or gossiping. If you felt there was a misunderstanding between yourself and your manager, I encourage you to have an open and transparent discussion with him or her. The career paths available to our consultants are explained from the first stages of the recruitment process (technical expertise, project management or business management), and the steps to progress towards one of the paths are discussed individually in career management follow-up meeting which take place every three months. Finally, to address your point on staff well-being, I would like to kindly remind you that we have, as part of the company benefits, an Employee Assistance Programme, available to all, and we have repeatedly encouraged our employees to make the most of it throughout 2020, an especially challenging year. We also triggered an employee well-being survey and have a Mental Health First Aider in the company, available to help anyone in need. I hope this helps demonstrate that our employees well-being is a priority. Thanks again for your feedback and I am sorry you did not seem to enjoy your stay in the company. Your review seems to be the fruit of misunderstandings and miscommunications, and I would like to assure you we will take this into consideration, and continue to strive to offer the best experience to all employees.