Pros
I created great friendships, as we trauma bonded over the horrible experience and working conditions we had as employees of this company.
Cons
I honestly could write a novel about how much I hate GLG, but theyre not worth it. Prior to accepting my offer at GLG, I looked at Glassdoor and decided to ignore the negative reviews; a word of advice, from my experience, they are absolutely accurate. I have had a positive experience in every other role I have had prior to joining GLG. GLG comments about how the work is not for everyone and they are in a competitive environment. Clearly, the work is not for humans given the company-wide, extremely high hire turnover rate, and specifically in client services on my team. There were about 7+ people who left within a couple of months of me beginning, out of a team of about 20. They simply do not care about you as a human being; I didn’t even feel like I was seen as a person during my time there by management. Also, if you like to justify treating employees poorly by stating that you are in a competitive industry, consider this-I know people who work for competitors of GLG and they do not treat their employees this way. Of course, a lot of your experience at GLG depends on your team and manager, but I can promise you every new hire on my team felt the same way. Oh also, you really won’t learn many transferrable skills here. The managers have little working experience outside of GLG and more are promoted out of necessity, not because they are good at or have much experience managing others. Also you are basically expected to not move from your computer all day from 8:30-6:00. You can imagine the plethora of other negative things I have to say about this company and role, but I tried to keep is as short as possible, and even then, I have so many reasons why I would not even recommend this job to my worst enemy. Please take any other job. Every single one of the new hires on my team has had mental breakdowns and cried over this job because of how out of touch the leadership and managers are. Some needed to be prescribed medication because of how this joke of a company has impacted their life. It’s not worth it.