Pros
A great company to kick start your career with. Joining them helps you develop a good understanding of how the investment community thinks, works and grows. You speak with leading industry experts and while some look at it as a general conversation, its upon you to take back something from every conversation that you have. Opportunities are plenty and GLG is the place if you have new ideas that you want to share and develop or just develop a business communication skill set. Your encouraged to recruit the best and most widely approached speakers and are graded on top dollar earned by each.
Cons
The firm can do better at making sure employees are engaged in activities other than work only. Sometimes monotony does set in and it would be good to have relaxed days at the workplace once every week to loosen up a bit.