I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at GLG (Londres, Inglaterra) in Jun 2015
Interview
Phone interview and then was called in for a face to face in the London office. I met with 4 people - hiring manager, vice president and two members from the LifeScience team. Everything went really well they told me they were interviewing more people the week after but the very next day received a call from the recruiter to say they were going in a different direction. They refused to give any feedback regarding my interview which is very odd as most companies are happy to let you know why they didn't hire you and where you can improve. Very strange as they are meant to be all about sharing knowledge yet they can't even give any constructive feedback to their candidates!
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at GLG (Austin, TX) in Jul 2015
Interview
The woman who did the initial HR interview was nice, helpful, and seemed interested in how much i knew about GLG and about my own experience. As most of the reviews have stated, make sure to do your research on GLG. The woman who performed the second interview, however, seemed distracted and rushed. She interrupted me mid-answer, and didn't even finish asking some of her questions ("Why do you want the position of...." then was silent). When she asked me to tell her what I knew about the position, and I gave my answer, she interjected by saying "yes, but..." and then pretty much repeated what I had just told her. By the end of the interview I felt as if she was either completely checked out and ready to go home, or had made up her mind prior to the interview of whether I were to advance or not, and was doing the interview for the sake of doing the interview. I don't mind not advancing, but I do feel as if we had both wasted 30 minutes of our day.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at GLG (Austin, TX) in May 2015
Interview
Process took a lot longer and required more interviews than I expected. The first phone interviews were behavioral. One from HR as a basic screen, then two from senior employees. From there, they sent out a case study to be performed over the next 24-48 hours and then reviewed with a senior employee. They then invited me out to Austin. The day of interviews was entirely behavioral starting with junior to mid-level associates taking me out for coffee and followed by behavioral interviews with senior VPs and mid-level associates. Human resources failed to send a detailed interview schedule and there wasn't an HR rep to mediate the schedule for the day. As a result, the schedule was unclear to pretty much everyone and I was left sitting in a conference room alone for about an hour as they figured out what was going on. This wasn't a particularly positive experience, but it was clear this was mostly a failure on behalf of HR rather than the interviewing staff.