The "Smart-Shoring" Myth: The company uses "smart-shoring" as a deceptive marketing term for gutting the US workforce. They aggressively extract US dollars from clients while refusing to pay for the local talent that actually drives those relationships. By replacing experienced Americans with the cheapest possible offshore labor, they have created a massive communication and quality gap that is embarrassing to defend to clients.
Broken Internal Hierarchy: The leveling system is essentially a sham. High-level supervisors and managers are routinely misclassified in paths to suppress wages and benefits. Professionals with decades of expertise are left to rot in stagnant development tiers with no path for advancement. It is a deliberate strategy to keep overhead low by ignoring the actual roles people perform.
Sales-Obsessed and Delivery-Hollow: Alithya is a sales organization that happens to sell services it can no longer reliably deliver. The focus is entirely on the next contract, with zero regard for execution. This approach has been failing for years. You only have to look at the tanking stock price to see the market’s verdict on this leadership.
Reward for Failure: The culture promotes leaders who have presided over years of business shrinkage. Instead of course-correcting, they continue to purge great workers in favor of a workforce that lacks the language skills and cultural context to support enterprise clients.
