ALTEN reviews

The environment is very chaotic. Employee utilization (billable hours) is what is valued most and you work for Sales people as an engineer (they are your supervisor!). The idea is that you are a revenue source for them and as such, they are incentivized to keep engaging you on whatever work they can find for you. Using mostly foreign labor that is captive in the US on a work Visa (primarily from France and Sweden) is the business model, and it works for some people, but I found it quite deceiving to customers and it made me sad how low the pay was for my non-US citizen peers. They worked just as hard as me, but were paid a fraction - and my pay was just below industry averages.

Poor communication between Managers at the same office. You get told one thing by the person you report to and their superior says something totally different. Don't believe them when they say they will pay you while looking for a new assignment if your assignment ends. I gave them two pages of opportunities to follow up on and they did nothing, then suddenly let me go in two weeks. They never told me my actual last day of employment, I found out because HR approached me about it. They will even break up your last check so you only receive one week of pay.