Athena
About Athena
Athena provides a dedicated, top-tier Executive Assistant (EA) service, connecting busy professionals and executives with highly skilled, long-term partners based in the Philippines. Going beyond typical virtual assistance, Athena focuses on strategic partnership and delegation, offering trained EAs who are seamlessly integrated into the client's operations. Assistants undergo rigorous C2-level English proficiency testing and handle core executive tasks like calendar management, travel coordination, and inbox organization to boost client productivity and drive business growth.
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Executive Assistant
Annual Commitment | Billed monthly
Executive Assistant
No Annual Commitment | Billed monthly
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Company Reviews
Total Reviews
1068
Last Rated 11/28/2025
Overall Ratings
4.15
Last Rated 11/28/2025
Manager
1 month ago
Good onboarding, Bad offboarding
Pros: Good onboarding, they will take care of you since they need you. Competitive Salary. | Cons: Bad offboarding, since you're leaving, the processes seems to take longer than reasonable timeframe, clearance takes weeks to complete. Bad environment, you will drown with a lot of work and they will say it's because we're still new, they're not new, they're almost 5 years and processes should have already been established and standardized.
Executive Assistant
1 month ago
If you think BPO is tough, this one takes it to another level
Pros: Pros? Honestly none worth noting. | Cons: Compensation is significantly below market; workers receive only a small fraction (33%?) of what clients are billed. The business model appears focused almost entirely on profit rather than employee well-being. Leadership feels disconnected, with decisions that often make the work environment harder instead of better.
Executive Assistant
1 month ago
Needs a strong person to withstand
Pros: Fully Remote Training opportunities Macbook | Cons: High pressure You can be offboarded anytime Micromanagement No stability
Executive Partner
1 month ago
Intensive and Extensive training
Pros: The training will equip you with valuable skills Good support for you to do your job | Cons: No room for errors Training is fast pace Quick adaptation is key
Executive Assistant
1 month ago
Not bad but can always be better
Pros: Bonuses are available Has insurance Good equipment Weekend and holidays off (compensated if working on Holidays) | Cons: A salary increment will only be considered after you provide an email detailing the reasons you believe you deserve one.
Employee
1 month ago
Okay place to work if you don't have other options
Pros: Cool perks and gifts sometimes. | Cons: Too much micromanagement from the managers.
Executive Partner
2 months ago
Too much bureaucracy
Pros: 1. Decent Renumeration 2. Provide work laptop (Though they rolled back the policy to buy out your Athena issued Macbook) | Cons: To much oversight, the training process was long and the time it took me to get matched to a client was nearing on 2 months!! Applied in October got matched to a client in late December. Mind you there is no pay that whole time. And you're not allowed to work elsewhere during that period. The amount of managerial oversight is too much. The admin tasks on top of your already demanding client are excessive forcing you to work outside the prescribed hours to complete. They oversell the Executive parnters to clients and blame you when a client leaves. Overall not a great experience.
Executive Assistant
2 months ago
This place will test you.
Pros: *Employee benefits. *Work from home. | Cons: *Poor work culture. *Poor communication especially management. *Unnecessary stress. *Long turnaround times for everything internal however the company stresses on the importance of communication. *Poor governance.
Executive Assistant
2 months ago
EA
Pros: Training is good, work life balance | Cons: Pay could be better for XPs
Executive Partner
2 months ago
Recommend!
Pros: The company filters all employees very well resulting to good quality, experienced executive assistants | Cons: There is no automatic yearly increase.
Executive Assistant
2 months ago
Good entry level pay, poor career progression
Pros: Good compensation for entry level Good training Great benefits | Cons: Poor career progression possibilities Managers and Executives do not listen to their employees. Managers/executives even mock their employee feedback. Salary increase is non existent. Toxic culture
Software Engineer
2 months ago
Not good at all, stressful and exhausting
Pros: The company is large, and you know how these companies work from the inside. | Cons: - There are schedules, but they are not respected. - They ask for urgent things that make no sense. - There are many escalations for no reason; it seems like a way of threatening you, as if you weren't a professional.
Executive Partner
2 months ago
Can do better
Pros: An avenue you can use to get other professional jobs and clients. | Cons: The clients currently pay $3,000 and the Executive Assistants/Partners only receive $519. The clients overwork their Executive Assistants/Partners and Athena does not care. Athena only cares about the client's $3,000, which they are now increasing to $4,000 come January 2026. The C-Suite, Operations Directors, Operations Managers and Administration pay themselves very high salaries and misuse the funds by always drinking every weekend, Five Star Hotel booking activities for themselves every quarter and After Party Events instead of taking care, compensating and paying their Executive Assistants/Partners well. The Managers are always putting down the Executive Partners and getting aware with it, they are never discipline. C-Suite always protects them while they fire the Executive Assistant/Partners. The Payroll cuts the Annual Leave Salary in half for any Executive Assistant/Partner that is on leave and is not matched to a client, yet they have earned the Annual Leaves which goes against any Labour Law in any country. The Management demands and forces their Executive Assistants/Partners to create IXP videos of the work they do if they want a promotion to Senior Executive Assistant/Partners and when rating the Scorecard. There is no growth for Executive Assistants/Partners in Athena.
Employee
3 months ago
Do not apply
Pros: Do not apply to Athena. | Cons: They lie from day zero (recruitment).
Executive Partner
3 months ago
Great at first
Pros: Intensive but helpful training because it will really gauge your grit. | Cons: Not for the faint-hearted people.
Finance Analyst
3 months ago
Micromanagement/Overload
Pros: Company benefits - HMO - Flexible reimbursement - Midyear Bonus - Quarterly Team building | Cons: - Everyone is C-suite, disregard SOP and TAT do it now (bec we can't lose a client, everything is urgent) - Work Overload (8 working hours, but the tasks assigned requires a lot more) - If you have good review write in glass door, otherwise don't speak :( (They only encourage good reviews)
Executive Partner
3 months ago
Great place to be at
Pros: - Health care benefits - Comprehensive training - Amazing team | Cons: - The current salary is on the lower side for XPs
Executive Partner
4 months ago
I learned a lot
Pros: Amazing training They will really test your skills | Cons: Bad experience with Client Partnership Manager
Executive Assistant
4 months ago
All good until they keep you waiting in the matching pool for more or less 2 months
Pros: The training is good. They provide in-depth training for their XPs. | Cons: Matching takes too long. Not saying this for everybody, but for most, if I'm not mistaken. Gives a Php5,000 allowance per week, but I would say it's not enough for those with numerous monthly bills. Also, it's so frustrating when they give you tasks just to keep you occupied while you're in the matching pool waiting for that YBC email. Demotivating at its best, after the post SR.
Executive Assistant
5 months ago
Manage expectations
Pros: Work from home, stiped while training | Cons: Waiting to be matched with a client may take long
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