GLG reviews

Oh boy, where to begin. GLG has the most rotten culture of any company i have ever worked with. Do yourself a favor and apply to Dropbox, Indeed, Facebook... ANYWHERE but this place. Theres a reason this company likes to hire out of college: they seek out motivated, people-pleasing, perfectionist young professionals and squeeze every last drop out of them and then discards them, only to go back to the drawing board and hire brand new people. Not many employees stay more than a year. 1. Work-life balance is atrocious, it has wrecked my mental health (i am seeing a therapist now) and has frequently caused me to neglect my personal needs. I habitually worked from 8:30 AM-6:30PM and then some more from home from 8:30PM -12:30AM. This was my routine every M-TH and it was expected by the company. Not sustainable at all, most people burn out and leave after a year because of this, among other reasons. 2. There is a stark disconnect between the metrics demanded and the time required to meet those metrics. In order to meet base metrics i had to work 60+ hrs/week. There is an expectation (both verbalized and non-verbalized) to be online and connected at all moments and responsive to clients even late hours. 3. Evaluation of employees is extremely metrics-based and definitely ignores/understates some of the other success factors that make an employee a valuable asset for the team, as well as previous contributions made to the company. 4. along those lines, the way people are promoted here is EXTREMELY biased and subjective. The "career path" that is presented is not reflected in what actually happens when people move up. 5. I have seen multiple people get pushed out of the company by leadership. Rather than work with them to improve on where they are lacking, they are not given the resources they need to succeed and there is very much a message that they are not wanted. 6. Problems that are raised to HR or leadership are constantly brushed under the rug. Employees do not feel safe flagging issues due to retaliatory culture. This place is rotten to the core. 7. I know of numerous cases where GLG has changed employees compensation WITHOUT TELLING THEM. In some cases, payroll has erroneously deposited large sums of money into employees accounts and demands it back using threatening legal emails. 7. Extremely individualistic culture. Everyone is pretty much just looking after themselves, either because they are drowning in work and trying to simply stay sane/afloat or because they are trying to make it up the ranks at whatever cost. Leadership does not care about its employees and exploits them to the limits of ethical behavior. 8. Asolutely horrendous sustainability track record. This company does NOT care about the environment or its footprint and makes it completely obvious. Every time food is catered, hundreds of unused plastic cutlery (in packages) is just thrown out with no remorse. Facilities has received complaints about this and does nothing about it. This company makes it extremely obvious that it does not care about its employees or the planet.

People: The root of the problem at GLG is the people. The people drive significant dysfunction throughout the entire organization, from top to bottom. At the junior level, the large majority lack sufficient training and experience to do the job that would truly put GLG ahead of competitors, so the work has evolved to serve the "least common denominator" employee, and became extremely mundane and boring for the good ones. They are taught only the most basic of basic skills in order to function at a barely acceptable level. They are fresh out of college and in dire need of robust training, which we completely miss the bar on at a massive scale. At the senior level, you have two types of people: 1) People who "grew up" at GLG, and therefore truly lack sufficient skills to do anything anywhere else, and therefore must be cutthroat, egotistical and highly unethical to survive (i.e., stealing work and presenting to senior colleagues as their own, lying, and in general being self-serving above and beyond the health of the company), and 2) People who came in with sufficient experience to drive impact, but are usually quick to depart because of the massive infrastructure challenges, including org, tech, and talent. Career advancement: My biggest regret is choosing to work for this firm, because it has been a terrible waste of time. Essentially, whatever talent and experience level you have when you come in is exactly what you will have when you leave. You will NOT grow here, so don't come in expecting to. You will have a tougher time in your search for the next thing, because what you do and what you learn at GLG is not valuable. Also, you are simply not working with high caliber people when you come to GLG, so don't expect to "learn from the best", the "best" are not here and they will not come here. Tech: Let's stop pretending we are a tech company, or even a bare minimum tech-enabled company. Our engineers are as incompetent as they are arrogant, and nothing is happening on the tech front unless a HUGE change is made over many many years. The large extent of GLG's internal problems are tech-driven, and there is virtually NO accountability in the tech function. Don't believe for a second that the ones who caused all of the issues will be the ones who fix them.