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.
