AlixPartners, LLP Europe

Also Known As: AlixPartners

Consulting - Management and Strategy

VAULT RANKINGS 2013

#25 Prestige

GENERAL INFO

Headquarters: Southfield, MI
14 offices
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THE BUZZ…

"High performance level"
"Tough environment"
"Great positioning"
"Don’t know their limits "

NEWS AND UPDATES

Vault's Scoop

Uppers

“Great freedom to organise our own work”
Little hierarchy
“The exposure to top management”
“Informal attitude”

Downers

Lack of transparency in promotion track
“Lack of internal communication and rules”
“Increasing bureaucracy”
“Not very structured professional development”

ABOUT THIS COMPANY:

Financial facelift

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm that has made its name and earned its reputation through its work in the corporate turnaround and restructuring industry. Although it can provide other services, the firm’s four main business functions are operational performance improvement, financial restructuring and bankruptcy reorganization, litigation consulting and financial advisory services. The firm is most known for its services aimed to reverse the fortunes of struggling companies, but it also offers nip-and-tuck services, such as performance improvement and strategic consulting services for companies that are not in financial straits but may still be looking to improve operations. Operating in the United States, Europe and Asia, AlixPartners has been retained by major companies including Cadbury Schweppes, GM, Kmart, Toys R Us and more. Best of all for its clients, AlixPartners works on a pay-for-performance system, aligning its compensation structure with its clients' success.

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AlixPartners SALARIES

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AlixPartners SURVEY SAYS

Changing times

Since private equity firm Hellman & Friedman took a controlling stake in AlixPartners, the firm has “become more bureaucratic”, more “like an institution” and less entrepreneurial, insiders say. But the move hasn’t affected the “stimulating” work, however, and consultants are still very “proactive and hands-on”, and hard work remains acknowledged and appreciated by those at the top. Consultants themselves are “professional” and create a “very friendly” environment that is “supportive and business-like”, and respondents say there is a big sense of “respecting the individual” at the firm. A large amount of emphasis is placed on bringing in the results and the cash, according to sources, despite the “low degree of leadership visibility”.

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Getting Hired

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Taking their time

The interview process at AlixPartners is “very formal and serious” and “very slow, with the average recruitment time being six months”, according to insiders. As one source reveals, “It was the most intensive process I have been through for any job”—which “ensures that the company gets the best”. Candidates should expect “typically six to eight interviews, plus half a day of intelligence and psychometric testing” over a period of “many weeks”. The interviews themselves are a classic mix of personality and case-based assessments, we’re told.

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