GDS Group reviews

3.1

52% would recommend to a friend

(695 total reviews)

Spencer Green and Charles Oakley

52% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

GDS Group has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 695 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The GDS Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Administración y consultoría industry (3.7 stars).

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695 reviews
1.0
Jun 17, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

None - horrible place to work that genuinely doesn’t care about staff. If you don’t fit in, you get fired and they recruit some more flunkies.

Cons

The whole company is a con job. Don’t be fooled - all these reviews giving positive feedback are written by GDS senior team members trying to get their 3 star rating up. Avoid like the plague.

1.0
Jun 15, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nothing that I can think of

Cons

They laid off people heartless because of covid. Not to mention is was super high pressure before. They’re also very deceptive with the commision. They don’t treat you like a human being. Everyone is treated like a number.

5.0
Jun 15, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

To start with the pros of working at GDS is a little complicated if you haven't worked in a sales environment. I've only been in the company 3 months or so and from the interview process to starting I was made to feel welcome. One of the first questions I asked in my interview was, what is the culture like? To begin with I was worried this would be a boiler room type of environment. I was so happy when I began to find myself in a welcoming environment with loads of help and support when I asked for it, or when someone else saw me struggling. The training - there is a well defined emphasis on training, from week one I got to spend time with the VP of Training and development George who is a lovely chap, helps structure your thought process and identifies the processes within the role as to what you will be doing throughout your time at GDS. The people - it would be wrong to not mention the people, managers or the SLT who are always interested in supporting you working hard to make you as successful as possible and giving you advice from the start of how to be successful. The team are all really friendly and very accommodating to many of my silly questions. The humour on the floor helps break down the stress of working in a fast paced environment. Progression - Although I have only been here a short while, there is to me a clear path way for progression and from what I understand you can find yourself in a department within the company that you may not have originally thought you would be in from production, marketing to new parts of the business in the early days of formation.

Cons

When thinking of what cons there were I would say that there are very few. It hasn't been by any means smooth sailing all the way through but has been a challenge that was wanted. Time frame - shorter days means that you can find yourself if not balancing your time correctly to run out of it very quickly. Parity - from a perspective of actually being able to speak to the types of people you need to speak with is something that I would say is somewhat glazed over at points. I'm not very good at speaking with people I consider to be further ahead in their career and with a title like Director, VP, SVP or CxO can be somewhat traumatizing to begin with and throughout. Sometimes creating parity is somewhat difficult when you don't have that mindset.

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Thank you for writing this review, we really do read and take everything people write seriously. It makes me really positive to see you highlighting culture, training and people. Thanks again
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