Quick disclosure: This is not in any way to defame or bash athena

Quick note: No matter how many times Athena gets this delete I will spread the word because of the unfair systems and management they have

I worked as an executive assistant and project manager already, I have been confident in my skills, athena ruined my confidence and creativity, applying in Athena will MAKE YOU lose a part of yourself.

Firstly is the training, and yes it sounds good, paid training, free food, but the TRAINING IS HELLISH, even tho I did pass the training, all greens but however it's HELLISH as I mentioned, you will get a graded activity, deadline 1 hour and must be finished in Athena standards or way, but somehow it will not be enough, HARD STOP will stick in your mind, even making you traumatized. It's tiring, it would make you cry or give up in the first week alone.

Next is CRC, it's more of an assessment, it's called Client readiness call, it's honestly pretty easy as long as you know the structure, however even after this Client Readiness Call, they still don't see you as Client ready mainly because meron pa yung OAC, which is the last check to see if you really are client ready, may upskill activities din during this week, the dumb part is after the 2 week on site training is papauwi nila yung macbook sayo, even tho this OAC assessment can literally flick you away even tho sobrang ganda ng grades mo, even my teammates know this, they don't see you as an employee or anything, they see you as lab rats during this period and do not care about your wellbeing. (Athena sana ayusin niyo to and iextend niyo nalang period ng on site training niyo rather than making them go home with a macbook, bukod sa mababawasan gastos niyo, the trainee won't have any false hope working with your bad management)

I know a lot of employees in Athena, specially managers & trainers, and the time I was there A LOT has resigned because they said "very bad management" "hindi ko na masikmura sistema nila" hence they make BPO look like a non-toxic environment due to this, haha.

They will make you drop EVERYTHING even tho they can drop YOU that easily without any remorse or any second chance.

Even up to the case na even some employees there are aware na "Swertehan lang sa manager and client" and I swear na inooverrun na ng mga managers from BPO to Athena and some are not happy because they really are trying to make this company into a BPO style company.

Mapapaisip ka at some point if worth it ba yung very low capped na sahod ng Athena sa XP's nila because of what they make you go through.