After my first week at AlphaSights, there is still a ton about my job that I do not know. While I learned a lot and met some awesome people throughout my first week, we spent the entirety of the week in training, separate from the rest of the company. While I anticipate that a lot of my questions will be answered once we start doing actual work tomorrow, as of now I have many unanswered questions about the organization culture of the company. My biggest question revolves around the overall personalities of the employees.<\/p>\n
During my interview and through my first week at the office, it is clear that employees at AlphaSights view their peers as a big perk of the job, everyone loves working with each other and I have yet to hear anyone speak negatively about someone at the company. I can honestly say, through five days I have had the exact same experience. People are extremely nice, beyond helpful, and some of the smartest people I have ever worked with.<\/p>\n
However, what interests me about this culture is that everyone seems to be extremely extroverted. While this makes sense given that a large part of our job revolves around speaking to strangers on the phone, I have never been surrounded by so many extroverts in my life. In pretty much all of my past experience observing group dynamics I have noticed that a healthy group requires a mix of introverts and extroverts to balance each other out, so I am very interested to see how this all plays out. One thing that is important is that I believe AlphaSights realizes this trend, in our training this week we learned about the ways that different personalities interact with each other. When two extroverts are conversing, there is a tendancy for them to be constantly thinking about their next comment rather than actually listening to what their counterpart has to say. I will be very interested to see how this plays out throughout the summer!<\/p>\n
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