GLG reviews

2.6

24% would recommend to a friend

(2,263 total reviews)
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Gemma Postlethwaite

20% approve of CEO

18% positive business outlook

GLG has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,263 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The GLG employee rating is 30% below average for employers within the Administración y consultoría industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Aug 20, 2017
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Pros

Enormous turnover means they teach you all there really is to get out of the role in the first 6 months. Nobody really stays for more than 2-3 years. They'll pay you super well if you're willing to stick around for >4 years, but at the opportunity cost of all of your actual professional and career development during that time.

Cons

The pay is barely enough to live on in most of the geographies, other than Texas, where it's plenty. They pretend like they put a lot of resources into learning and development for employees but it's all talk and no follow up. The benefits are average at best. Middle management is mediocre (just the people who weren't good enough to find a better job after 2-3 years) most of the time and upper management pretends to be accessible, but unless you're in NYC they aren't and only pretend to be transparent. They management pretends to be meritocratic in its focus on defined goals, but the goals are often unreasonable. Your experience will largely be a function of your team and your accounts rather than your own performance or capabilities. Even when they acknowledge that some accounts are more or less difficult to service than others they're unyielding on the promotion requirements and performance bonuses which horribly hypocritical. I started out of the NYC HQ and, on day one, was issued a crappy, used Lenovo with no rubber feet left and a broken keyboard. That's how little respect they show to new junior employees. The rest of the experience has been basically more of the same in every other department.

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GLG Response
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We see our expansion and growth as positives, not negatives. We want people to feel good about working at a company that is doing well and that’s committing to figuring out how to do even better. Growing pains do happen when you grow at a double-digit pace over multiple years. We’re taking concrete steps to address them. For example, this summer we hired a new global head of HR, and throughout the year we’ve ramped up our L&D opportunities for employees, with a focus on developing our managers. We’ve also begun experimenting with both technological and team solutions to workload balancing, with more to come on both fronts.
1.0
Dec 1, 2016

Avoid!

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Pros

There's a free coffee bar.

Cons

Management is terrible - your work is HEAVILY micromanaged as a research manager, performance is tracked by amount of revenue brought in by each client (sales-y role which is not revealed during interview process) and there is a LOT of turnover.

1.0
Oct 1, 2015

Research Manager

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great offices (NY) with some cool perks Very easy and fair hours, especially for New York

Cons

Research manager role is complete monkey work! Your job is effectively a glorified receptionist, with the main focus on scheduling as many calls as possible. There is very little 'research' required, but rather facilitation of people who can speak to topics. The skills learnt have no transferable aspect to them, and the job can become a career killer very quickly.

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