Glorified call center - Council Development Associate GLG Employee Review

2.0
Mar 15, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay is highly competitive. They have lots of interesting employees and you can meet people of all backgounds. Committed to diversity. Nice office space. Good benefits in terms of employee mental wellness, phone reimbursal, parking, etc.

Cons

Very repetitive and monotonous, painful and manual process. Too much change in terms of everything else. From my second week to the day i left after 2 years and a week, I did the exact same calls and lead generation - but the tools, the people I worked with, where I sat, the names of business units, my pay, my vacation time, and everything else changed. Most often it would change with little to no notice - you would walk in and the systems would be different. They oversold the job on all the problem solving and collaboration we would be doing - almost none. If you want to learn you can, but also if you don’t want to learn anything you can just do the process and get by and not build any skills at all. The management is aware the learning and development is a huge gap and at the time I left they were working to address that but it seemed like a lot of talk and presentations without much real career development occurring.

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GLG Response
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Thanks for the feedback. As mentioned, we are investing in our learning and development efforts both in terms of role-based capability building and more robust manager training programs. We also recognize that during your time with us, we grew significantly – introducing new opportunities as well as a few changes. We are working hard to improve our lines of communication so everyone from new hire to veteran GLGer stays better informed on what’s coming and why – from new tools to internal people processes.

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