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Heath Hohwald, AlphaSights’ CTO, discusses the software engineering team’s decision to transition from a Ruby on Rails to a Kotlin tech stack. Why did you move to a Kotlin-based platform from a Ruby on Rails tech stack? We’ve primarily b...

Last week, London Client Service Associate Connie Van Stroud sat down with Natasha Bhana, AlphaSights’ Head of Recruitment for Europe, to pick her brain on all things interview related, and find out what she enjoys most about leading our recruitin...

Now a manager on AlphaSights’ fast-growing Finance team in London, Merel Peters had a rather unique path to her current role. After her internship on our Client Service team (CST), she sat down with Co-founder, Andrew Heath, to figure out her next...

One of the newest members of the AlphaSights team, Celine Zoetelief-Tromp, shares her perspective on our Associate Program application process: What initially interested you about AlphaSights and the Associate role? The more I learned about ...

I joined AlphaSights four and a half years ago, when we were a significantly smaller team with far fewer offices but growing extremely quickly. We were all commercially focused and our primary goal was to provide an outstanding, quality-focused se...

Diversity In People As a second generation Hong Konger, raised in Australia, you’d think that it would be hard to beat the diversity that I was exposed to in ‘the lucky country’ renowned for multiculturalism and social diversity. Wrong. When I ...

Life as a lawyer offers many things: a long-term career path, a clearly defined day-to-day role, and an easy way to explain what you do for a living. Having read Law at Cambridge and trained at a leading global firm, the legal treadmill was alread...

When I would tell people that I was going to graduate early, I would get mixed reactions. “Why do you want to do that?” my friends would ask, “you’re choosing to miss the best semester!” Others would ask me “how are you pulling that off? I wish I ...

As the calendar turns to Summer, we can officially celebrate the end of college graduation season. We’ve been treated to the wisdom that only celebrity commencement addresses - like one by the inimitably quotable Kanye West - can provide. And now,...

When I think about Pride, I’m reminded of a younger Ciarán, in a previous job, who went back into the proverbial closet. I came out early on in university but after I graduated, there was always a fear or worry that showing my full self would be t...

Today, many young job seekers pursue a variety of different, perhaps less-traditional opportunities upon graduation. Gone are the days when large, multinational corporations, with decades of history, gobbled up all of the college graduates and enc...

Since joining AlphaSights full time a year ago, the explicit benefits of the entry-level role have always been obvious to me: ability to enjoy AlphaSights’ terrific culture, chance to develop crucial project management skills, and opportunity to d...

I recently joined AlphaSights as an experienced hire, with a little less than eight years of direct sales experience. I came from a firm where the average age of the field sales organization was over 40. Tenure was everything at my previous compan...

What many young graduates tend to ignore is the fact that a successful career depends not only on an individual’s skillset and virtue, but as much on your company’s willingness to let you use them to the fullest. There have certainly been countles...

When I told my friends and family I was leaving Apple, the reactions were everything you’d expect. Some questioned my sanity; others were simply stunned that I would leave my dream company after only 18 months. I’m an unabashed Apple geek - in fac...

Getting a good job after graduation is a large part of the new chapter young adults begin to write as they enter the "real world". Many students have the mindset that long-term career success begins by establishing yourself right away at a brand n...

Andy Cipolaro, the Head of Technical Talent at AlphaSights, spoke to Flatiron School about the special combination of past work experience and programming abilities that AlphaSights looks for when hiring junior developers. Check out the intervie...

My first 6 months at AlphaSights has flown by — it seems like only yesterday when I first applied to the Associate program last September. I joined AlphaSights in January 2018, after studying Economics at The University of Exeter. Since then, each...

Let’s face it. The job market is tough for today’s college seniors. Since the 2008 economic downturn, job growth for millennials has been flat or down, and the average young graduate holds debt hovering somewhere around $30,000 in the US and £44,0...

Like any great start-up, our story starts at Stanford Business School in California. Well, that’s at least where our two co-founders, Max Cartellieri and Andrew Heath, met while playing beer pong and getting their MBAs in the late 90s. Both develo...