Aptitive is Dedicated to Your Success - Recensione dipendente - Senior Consultant presso Aptitive

You are assigned a mentor from day 1. This is not your manager, but rather someone that has more experience in the industry to help you build your consulting and technical skills. I meet with my mentor a couple times a month to discuss my work, struggles, and training plan. We are also given a formal review every 6 months by a variety of people including teammates and clients (this is when we do promotions as well). I have found them to be very constructive and result in clear, personalized goals. We have $3K per person dedicated to training. I'm spending mine to learn Spark (no project, but I want to start selling Databricks). We see a future demand, so I am trying to get ahead of the curve! Even though I'm on an old school SSIS project right now, I get to stay very tech forward. This is because we are encouraged to not focus too much on any particular technology stack, but rather experiment, network, and sell in any technology that is demanded by our market. I've learned everything from Powershell to R depending on the lead (and you will get a chance to network and sell early on in your career). Aptitive is great about using your natural curiosity and problem solving skills to build your breadth of knowledge. We have a lot of room for promotion at Aptitive! We are not a pyramid structure, so you don't need your manager to retire to get to the next level. In fact, your promotions are based primarily on your performance. There is even room for multiple promotions within a single year for top performers (consultants operating well above their current level). Each new level has new expectations. Associates tend to focus on building technical skills and management tends to focus on leadership/sales (although I'm doing a lot of dev too). As you move up in your career at Aptitive, you will find a good fit within a practice and have ample opportunity to pursue the training and projects that are most interesting for you and potential clients.

High growth companies have growing pains. Aptitive is no exception.

Aptitive push me to learn more in my 3 month internship about consulting, Information Systems, and Computer Science field than I ever imagined I would from an internship. They exposed me to client work and opportunities that most internships are not structured to provide. To make sure that I was supported in my role, Aptitive assigned me a mentor that was extremely helpful and accessible for answering questions and navigating any situation. My mentor even took the time to give me a small intro course to everything I would need to know over the summer. Additionally, they encouraged me to participate in classes on new technologies, learn new coding languages, and even take various certification tests, in order to enhance skilsl I could carry with me past the program. The company was genuinely interested in helping me grow professionally, gain experience in the day-to-day life of consulting, and communicating with me about pros, cons, and areas in which they could improve to make my internship better.

If you are looking for an structured internship, this program is not exactly that. It is very organic and designed with flexibility to serve each specific intern. The management team and assigned mentor adapt the experience to help ensure each person is able to get out of the program what they would like. Everyone is highly communicative about expectations and the experience so it is easy to express one's wants or give suggestions on things to change . You truly are able to get out of it what you put into it...and more! This style was not a negative for me, but I think it is different than most internship experiences and should be considered.