Pros
The company is growing quickly! alliantgroup is trying to add 50+ lawyers to the payroll to replace the senior attorneys who have left. And, actually, all of those new associates don’t have to be real attorneys. If you went to a diploma mill law school, are unlicensed because you haven’t taken a bar exam, and exhibit enough frat bro qualities, they’ll hire you, too. And ask yourself why one department needs so many new attorneys, anyway. When was the last time that a law firm hired 50 brand new associates? Look at the one star reviews on this site. Those reviews are the real ones. Think about it.
Cons
This company has amazingly high turnover, and they’re constantly hiring people barely out of school to replace senior technical people who leave as soon as they have a moment of free time to apply for other jobs. It’s hard to hire people when your glassdoor profile is full of one star reviews talking about emotional abuse and shady business practices. And that’s the best part. All of the five star reviews are absolutely fake. Every single one. Management has countless meetings and volun-tells people to write positive reviews and make recruiting posts on their personal social media accounts when the rating dips because it’s impossible to recruit. Take a look at the recent flurry of five star reviews. Look at the dates and the buzzwords. Six glowing reviews with similar language over the span of three days? Really? But let’s just pretend for a minute that the five star reviews are true. Unlimited growth? Sure, if you’re happy with work-life integration (their words; balance is never an option) and with making the blue a your entire life. Wellness initiatives? Good luck finding the time. Free food? Perfect for keeping you at your desk for eleven or twelve hours a day. Constant “investment?” If that’s what you want to call micromanagement, constantly being talked about and laughed at behind closed doors, and neverending “course correction” and “feedback” if you go off of a script, then sure. (And by the way: the “feedback” is almost always subjective, unrealistic, and not helpful. Everyone wastes dozens of hours trying to memorize the perfect way to phrase technical points that they mastered months ago. People need to show their managers that they’re investing in others, so a lot of the feedback here is borne of ego trips and incompetent desperation.) Oh, and all of those people that the five star reviews refer to as losers? The people who supposedly quit because they weren’t ambitious enough, they didn’t want to work hard enough, they weren’t willing to grow or become leaders? Those people who left or “gave up” are actually people who lived and breathed this awful company for months or years. People who gave up their social lives, their relationships, their self-respect, and their mental and physical health. Not people who sat around doing nothing or wasting time or complaining, and not people who showed up for a 9 to 5 job. (The work hours at alliantgroup are literally 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM, with plenty of people staying until at least 7:30 PM to catch up with the insane workload when it’s not even tax season, so the 9 to 5 comments are particularly scripted and bizarre.) The five star reviewers know that the true Glassdoor reviews look really bad, so they’re actively lying and painting former employees as lazy people. The fake reviewers are throwing a fit and pointing their fingers at people who worked incredibly hard and did everyone right. And as you can see from their hateful and dismissive language, none of that effort was enough for alliantgroup. Nothing ever is. You are expected to give this company 110% every single moment of every single day for little to nothing in return. It’s pathetic that people with multiple degrees (PhD’s, lawyer’s, MBA’s, engineers, scientists) end up earning less than $20/hour because of their 60+ hour work weeks, but it’s true. You will work here for years, quit, and lose all contact with friends you made here. You’ll work seven days a week during tax season, neglect your spouse and kids for three months, and then be denied a promotion because you’re suddenly not “culturally aligned.” You’ll gain weight, develop mental health issues, hate yourself every time that you overbill a client, feel gross every time a team lead or manager makes a dirty joke or touches your arm or checks you out, feel dread when you park your car every morning, hide in the bathroom and cry—and that will not be enough for alliantgroup. Nothing ever is, and nothing ever will be.