Alion Science and Technology Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"The only saving grace of working here were the people I worked with. They were all wonderful people. The actual work, location, environment, and compensation was pitiful and possibility of progression was nonexistent. Nobody I worked with was happy with their job or position but felt it was too late in their careers to go anywhere else."

"I have worked at Alion Science and Technology for 6 years. My supervisor is outstanding and the work environment is great. Some of the people as with any company are hard to work with. However, management is good about controlling these people."

"I have worked for Alion for 4 years. The company has great people but upper management hinders a lot of the progress the company could make. There is not a lot of room for upward growth."

"I worked at Alion a very long time, and watched them grow through acquisition into a directionless behemoth. The people and the customers are great, and the CEO lives in an ivory tower of elites with no vision. He's driven stock prices down 80% in the past 5+ years."

What do you like about working at Alion Science and Technology?

"the work I do is saving lives in the military"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"make sure you understand that your job requires you to go outside the U.S."

What don't you like about working at Alion Science and Technology?

"I have to be in Afghanistan to perform my job"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I think management does a fine job and have no complaints"

What do you like about working at Alion Science and Technology?

"Our office has a good family feel and most in the office get along well"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Can be an excellent platform into the industry. Work can be challenging and there are many opportunities for a young and motivated person to take on new tasks and learn new skills from experts in the field."

What don't you like about working at Alion Science and Technology?

"Upper management is self-serving and does not care about the employee. Though we are employee owned all decisions are made only to support board and C-level management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Gain more experience and ability by hiring knowledgeable people from the out side, not promote to management primarily from within and move skilled technical people with no ability to manage to management positions. Remove additional unneeded levels of management an focus on bringing in people that could gain work from existing customers as well as know how to find and gain new business.Stop having internal groups fight over elements of work available and punishing smaller business sectors by shouldering them out of their work focus to grab larger business that does not allow for business growth"

"my experience with this company was one of learning and growing in a company."

What do you like about working at Alion Science and Technology?

"the people I worked with becamed good friends of mine"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"at this time I have no tips for others interviewing at this company."

What don't you like about working at Alion Science and Technology?

"the tight scedule we hade to keep where not realistic to the contract."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"don't give the managers so much power over the workers"

What do you like about working at Alion Science and Technology?

"Great people, enjoyable workplace atmosphere"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be honest and open about you knowledge and skill sets"

What don't you like about working at Alion Science and Technology?

"Lack of job function related work, poor funding for equipment"

"Alion was not interested in being in the design field."

What do you like about working at Alion Science and Technology?

"Management to the Office manager was great."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't get into their stock plan."

What don't you like about working at Alion Science and Technology?

"Dept head was suppose to bring in work, Never happened.Corporate was not interested in supporting our office with any work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"If your not interested in supporting a devision cut them loose and be upfront about it."

"Good solid company that suffered from employee relation problems"

What do you like about working at Alion Science and Technology?

"Always work to be done"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just make sure you go in with an open mind that no company or person is perfect. Ask yourself if you can be an asset to the company."

What don't you like about working at Alion Science and Technology?

"Evironmental issues and limited growth potential"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"You have business growth down pat, now pay attention to little things you do or don't see in your employees' environment so it doesn't crash from within. A company is nothing without the people that operate it on a daily basis."

"Great Company and good people"

What do you like about working at Alion Science and Technology?

"I liked the fact that I could come from a doctor's appointment and call in to make a meeting on my cell phone and then get into work and continue on my day."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just be yourself. I found the management team there very nice people to talk to and very informative when I had a question."

What don't you like about working at Alion Science and Technology?

"I think that the deadlines needed to be lengthen and more people assigned to the task just because when you are working in Database work you need to consider time when the database network shuts down."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Assign more people for a task or give the people a longer length of time to fully complete the task at hand."