Not worth it. - Senior Associate GLG Employee Review

2.0
Jan 13, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

You meet some incredibly smart people. I made some great friends as we struggled together. Misery loves company I guess. You learn a lot about grit and what you’re willing to put up with.

Cons

Short answer - I joined a team of 10, and within a year I saw 8 of my coworkers quit and 7 of them have some sort of mental/emotional breakdown. Everyone was so incredibly stressed and frustrated. For my team in particular, I think we all loved each other and our direct team leads. That said, the company culture, the higher ups, and most especially the demands of the management consultant companies (our clients) requested of us were absolutely insane. Truly made me come to a point in realizing that many management consultants are coked out sociopaths that do not think twice about trying to call you at midnight on a Friday because they want to put a comma somewhere on a project. Or will literally scream at you over the phone for the stupidest reasons. Too many examples to list. I loved my team, but GLGs upper managements inability to defend us from the insane demands of our clients made me realize I had to quit or I would lose it. I was burnt out for 2 years after leaving this job. But hey, I’m still close friends with people from my team that I suffered with. This all happened almost three years ago, so take this with a grain of salt as maybe things have drastically changed since then. Honestly I’m just posting a review because Glassdoor is telling me I need to post a review to be able to use it.

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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 27, 2026
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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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