A place to grow - Director GLG Employee Review

5.0
May 4, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Direct access to the most interesting & successful investors in the world, which provides a unique opportunity to learn (if you have the drive to unlock it) - An open, engaged workplace that empowers everyone from entry level to global leadership to problem solve together - Global opportunities across a variety of functional and regional segments, opening up a broad set of choices to grow & develop new professional skills - 20+ years on, GLG continues to lead it's industry and grow across multiple dimensions and give it's team the chance to be part of a winning strategy

Cons

- GLG has experienced growing pains; it would be hard for any successful growth company not to. But those challenges are chances for the motivated to jump in, solve problems and grow. - As a global business of a couple thousand people across 20+ offices, there is a large operational challenge of keeping everyone connected across time zones, cultures and languages. The company isn't yet at the scale of the large cap services or technology business that has teams of people managing these issues.

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5.0
Mar 31, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing people - lots of reviews say that because it's true. You'll work with smart, genuine, hard working humans. Good benefits and perks. Interesting events and opportunities to learn. Overall, a good place to start your career!

Cons

Very fast-paced environment which definitely isn't for everyone. Lots of necessary change.

1.0
Jun 27, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Not applicable at all (truly)

Cons

Genuinely I don’t know where to start. I’ve submitted and deleted two reviews in the past 3 months alone. On the surface GLG seems like the place to be to learn from members and executives, but just give it a little bit of time and you’ll quickly see how obvious the cracks are. The culture here is so toxic, managers either do not know or don’t want to delegate project work so you’ll find yourself getting whiplash just trying to get information related to your job from your OWN BOSS. At the same time everyone you interact with is the epitome of “that’s not my job”. The executive leadership team is a mean girls club made up entirely of friends of friends who have their direct reports working well into the night to pull things together so that they look good. The “motivators” the executives use is truly bullying (like constantly pulling up your job description to purposefully make you look and feel small) any other organization would identify making your employees purposely feel stupid and shut down as straight bullying. It’s truly no surprise that you will regularly see employees crying in the hallways. I have never seen a leadership team this incompetent.

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