Good for your first job, don’t overstay. Learning curve stalls after 6 months. - Senior Associate GLG Employee Review

2.0
Aug 5, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- great colleagues - fun activities outside of work - casual-ish dresscode - adequate entry level salary - fair performance based bonus - you learn solid transferrable skills for the first 6 months, then the learning stalls (aka no new skills left to acquire there)

Cons

- dysfunctional corporate culture - atrociously poor management - monotonous work - disturbing lack of transparency and blatant dishonesty regarding performance evaluation, qualifications for promotion and upward career mobility - a history of employees developing mental illness, depression, burn-out over the course of their work, with more than one incident of employees fainting (!) in the office (I am an eye witness) due to stress

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5.0
Mar 31, 2026
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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 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good colleagues, arguably a good job post college (for like a year MAX)

Cons

I cannot stress enough how terrible this company is. Spent 5 years there, and watched it go further downhill every year. You leave with only soft skills (if that), and 0 actual industry knowledge. Seriously, you leave only knowing a bunch of Hocus Pocus. I am really surprised this company hasn't been bought yet. Or merged. On my team alone, we lost 7 out of our 9 managers since January... either due to layoffs or them quitting. Pay is low. There are no bonuses and it's very difficult to get a raise. 90k in NYC is poverty. There are bright people that come in with Masters, and PhDs, and MBAs -- handing them 90k is insulting.

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