GLG reviews

Teams can vary in terms of quality and some members can be difficult to work with. Associate level has good prospects in terms of progression, but be prepared to undertake some tedious work in the meantime.

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.