Pros
You get to work along side some awesome team members! You get to make friends while you’re at work! IG is a good place to start if you are wanting to start your career, or are not too sure of career goals! Read carefully here on out. It’s long but necessary.
Cons
This review is of a corporate, internal role. Do not work here. If you are desperate for a job, please be patient and do not work here. Keep looking. Network. Use on-campus resources. Anything. It is not worth your sanity nor the tiny pay check for the work of 6 people (when you leave, your work will get divided up. 6 people received my workload upon my exit). Note: Many employees are forced to write positive, five-star reviews on their first day. Take that into strong consideration when considering employment at IG, especially ones that seem too similar or too vague. Low rating reviews are removed. Pay attention to approval and recommendation percentages from one day to the next. Pay is beyond poor (you will be lied to numerous times about it; get everything anyone says to you in writing: recruiter, leader, whomever). If you do not have it in writing, you’re screwed. Everyone relies on a second job for more money. Measly bonuses are being revoked. Morale is terrible. Be ready to experience and see breakdowns as well as hear people “go off.” “Leadership” is full of 25 year olds who haven’t ran anything except their sorority/fraternity. IG does not provide training for those in leadership roles. People who have not had enough work nor life experience are sitting in higher roles. The average age of the entire company is 27. If you are over 25, working here would be awkward. IG promotes “culture,” which is seriously lacking. New college grads: run from any company that talks so much about culture to where it’s weird. They do this because they don’t have anything else to offer you except happy hour, keep reading my review. Occasional free alcohol isn’t worth it. There is very little diversity and understood respect for others. Music choice with slurs played on speakers, racially offensive email from HR, and managers annoyed of non-English speakers should say enough for the type of environment. Forget further addressing it, it starts from the top. Workload is enough for 6 people, yet you can work only 5 hours of OT. You will be made to feel inadequate if you speak up and as if your time management is poor when you know it’s not and has never been. Also, strong work ethic or passion to get things resolved does not matter. Get ready for bias dependent on the way you look and how people feel about you. IG is high school all over again. People have not been hired due to them not being attractive enough. Your formal reviews with your leader take into account your “personal image.” HR deemed reviewing of “personal image” necessary. Wanting to grow yourself and learn more is frowned upon; keep your goals to yourself so they don’t get snatched from you. Leadership wants you in the role you were hired for only; forget about interest in other avenues of the biz. Turn over is absurd. About 14 people have quit or flat out walked out during my year there. Previous colleagues weren’t even paid their last week nor did they receive bonuses they were promised before the company decided to revoke them corporate wide. This company preys on new and naive grads, you can easily and quickly be replaced. Do not expect to be appreciated. Your pay certainly won’t show it; your leaders won’t praise you, let you know one on one that you’re doing well, nor will they help you get where you want to be either. Leadership only appreciates other leaders. Very cheap (not just in pay). System is beyond dated, consistently needs updating, and slows down work day. Clients even get frustrated because of the system. New system promised to be released for past 3 years and it’s still being worked on. IG boasts spending $500K on alcohol alone for each sales conference, and many AM’s make $100K+, but IG can’t even have a proper system nor pay the people also helping the company make money adequately. Priorities are beyond lost. Be expected to educate the sales field numerous times a day on their role, what’s needed from them, how to ask their client for something, what to do if their client isn’t paying etc. Be ready to consistently educate someone who is making atleast 2.5x what you are on their job responsibilities. The more money they make, the more rude and dense they will be. If you were contacted for a role, run. If you contacted a recruiter for a role, advise that you’re no longer seeking employment from IG. IG can be found on numerous sites and job boards warning people that the company is/is similar to a scam. This is especially true for the sales field. I won’t even get started on sexism and emails from Regional telling women what to wear, where to shop, men how to look good, and that we all get paid well enough look good. Mind you corporate employees make $32K. Just run.
