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      GLG

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      GLG reviews

      2.6

      23% would recommend to a friend

      (2,268 total reviews)
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      Gemma Postlethwaite

      20% approve of CEO

      18% positive business outlook

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      3.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.7

      Culture & values

      2.7

      Work/Life balance

      2.7

      Compensation and benefits

      2.3

      Career opportunities

      2.0

      Senior management

      GLG has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,268 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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      2K reviews
      2.0
      Jul 7, 2017

      Good first job to learn basic skills for short period of time

      Research manager
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      Pros

      GLG is a good place to learn basic office skills on time management and communication. Employees get experience managing a pipeline of projects under tight deadlines.

      Cons

      There is no clear path for career progression or role differentiation. Employees feel constant pressure from demanding clients and from managers within GLG. Depending on client segment/team, there is an expectation you respond to emails within 5 minutes of receipt. You will spent around 10 hours in the office and a couple more hours working from home, aside from checking emails every 2 minutes. The hours are long and the work can be tedious and repetitive. There is very little Research done; most of the work is administrative. The company is trying to implement change but does not communicate effectively.

      1.0
      Apr 3, 2017

      a great place to start a career if you don't know what you want to do

      Research manager
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      CEO approval
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      Pros

      They hire bright minds from very prestigious schools, so in many cases your colleagues will be intelligent and exciting to work with.

      Cons

      Just a politically toxic culture. There is no effort at real career or personal development. There is realistically only one track in which someone is able to progress and there is no flexibility for movement across the organization. The management is not empowered to truly develop their employees other than to push for performance. The result is an impersonal environment with no room for growth. The entire company's morale is truly depressing. GLG prides themselves most on client management skills and the development of "soft skills", but really they just push young recent graduates to follow a script without actually developing any sort of true client ownership and management. The "soft skills" are quite often unmarketable elsewhere. It is a churn and burn environment that they pretend is not. All of the most talented people leave within a few years, meaning that management is mostly comprised of the people who have "stuck around"

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