GDS Group reviews

3.1

53% would recommend to a friend

(691 total reviews)

Spencer Green and Charles Oakley

53% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

GDS Group has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 691 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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691 reviews
1.0
Dec 2, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Commission package, salary for stability, location in financial district

Cons

If you read any review: read this one. The 5 star reviews are 100% fake and written by management or asked by management to be written on their behalf. If that isn't the definition of a toxic and manipulative working environment, I don't know what is. GDS has required staff to work in the office since as early as July, and continues to maintain that position from my understanding, in the middle of the pandemic, at its absolute worse. One of their offices has had over five people test positive for COVID within the last few weeks alone. You would think they would understand the implications of their decisions and pivot to work-from-home again, but no. They actually have sent those people home and told everyone to come back within 24 hours as long as they have a negative test result. These decisions are being dictated by a CSO who has zero sales background, leads with fear, and openly talks about her psychiatric problems. As everyone is super on edge and scared about their jobs, management just falls in line and does as they are told. I was warned by coworkers who have been there for years that the business has never been in a worse position from a management and micromanagement perspective. It was my experience that they don't care about their employees. I wasn't there long enough to comment on the sales strategies and they seem to have a good product/

1.0
Jul 25, 2017

Awful company - stay away

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They close for two weeks at Christmas. The basic salaries are competitive. Don't believe the positive reviews - most are written by management to try to negate the negative reviews.

Cons

Awful working conditions, unprofessional approach to things. Unfortunately they deserve the negative reputation they have. There were some attempts at improving things - but this was short lived as Spencer wasn't willing to make the changes that were needed. The sad thing is that they have some lovely, talented people working there, but they haven't experienced anything else, and think that its normally to work in those conditions.

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GDS Group Response
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Thanks for leaving a review for GDS Group. Your feedback is highly appreciated. We regret to hear you didn’t have the best overall experience. It will be great to discuss your concerns with working conditions and business approach in more detail, and use it as a springing board to improve and implement better practices across the business. We are keen to learn from previous employment experience and we would love for you to contact us directly to discuss further.
1.0
Jul 20, 2017

Dont Work Here Unless You Have to

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

fun people to work with, travel a bit, nice office

Cons

Horrible business model, no management, they hire/fire in large groups. Please keep in mind there are two sides to GDS Sponsorship Sales which Cold Calls Relentlessly in hopes of scamming someone out of 50k by selling off a fake list and selling unrealistic EPP's than there are delegates where the fun begins. your job will consist of lead sourcing leads that your peers are all ready calling and then call the same people over and over and get them to join a 3-day event in a cool location but they will then spend 6-11 hours in vendor meetings which they will hate

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GDS Group Response
8y
Many thanks for taking the time to leave us a review. We're glad you've highlighted the culture and people you work with, you can see in the photo section that we take time out for fun, recognising success and socialising, and we love our office locations too! A dynamic company should always be a part of a dynamic location! We’re sorry to hear your full experience is not meeting your expectations though. The sales environment at GDS is very dynamic and we use a variety of sales techniques; great prospecting means that we do not only use social media channels and face-to-face methods but we also use phone based techniques as a means of connecting with our customers on a personal level. We realise that for some individuals that this is not their preferred means of prospecting and therefore these individuals I regret would not be a good fit for our organisation. We would love to discuss your concerns further with you to improve your GDS experience, please get in touch with the HR representative in your office to give some greater insight into your experience.
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