Ludovic Octon

Review of Alten Italia

For all those who doubt the technical performance ...

For all those who doubt the technical performance and the humanity of the company ALTEN, I invite you to read the following:
I worked at ALTEN for 3 weeks before being fired on a Friday by a queue received at 5:00 p.m. without NO warning.
The signing of my contract was done thanks to the large sweep of young graduates that HR carry out to recruit an army of naive and manipulable consultant.
I was supposed to start at ALTEN on October 2, 2017. So no pose for me.
A week before I started, I was in great demand by the "business managers". In the end, my contract with ALTEN started on September 26. So I had to ask leave without entry balances (very frowned upon) to ensure my move and my installation in my new hard-found apartment.
After meeting with different "business managers" in the sector, several of them contacted me to offer me multiple and varied missions. Some were really interesting but required a wait of 2 weeks to inter contract before I was integrated into the client.
My business engineer (who resigned 2 weeks after the start of my contract) strongly advised me not to do an inter-contract period (for profit reasons for ALTEN). So I accepted a mission which was to last 3 months with a position to be filled as quickly as possible (hence my start on September 26 and not on October 2).
To "sell" their consultants to their clients, ALTEN performs a very hypocritical practice: after your hiring you must complete a Technical File, which corresponds to a detailed CV where we explain in detail our previous efforts and the tools and technologies under control. However, when a "business manager" is interested in your DT (Technical File) because he has identified ONE element that interests the client on the mission in question; it asks your business engineer and the sector manager to "highlight" this element. This is when your DT is modified and retouched to highlight this experience or mastery with great exaggeration. This gives the impression for the client, when the "business manager" offers him your DT, to make it appear that you are specially trained for this mission. Thereafter, if the client retains your DT, you conduct an interview with it and the "business manager" responsible for this mission. If you are not stupid and know what you are talking about, despite an exaggerated DT, the client retains your profile and the mission begins.
In my case, I was sent on a mission that I was sold as "VBA development". In the end my mission was to speed up macros already created (which is no longer in my skills).
After 3 weeks of hard work to speed up macros from more than 5000 lines of a client, I was starting to reach the goal.
It was then that the manager of the Aerospace / Defense / Security sector of ALTEN contacted me to thank me without warning ... I asked to change my mission to do something that is more in my skills, even if it had to involve a period of inter contra, but nothing to do, the sector manager had already sent the papers to fire me without even consulting me before.

Clearly, OCTON Ludovic.