GLG reviews

Your job will get repetitive no matter what. The learning curve gets flat after 2 years and there is nothing you or the management can do about it. Highly number driven company, if you dont hit your targets - you are in trouble. Turnover is high - at least 5 people leave every month and company replace them with 5 more. There is no work life balance. If you leave at 6 pm everyday, you will not hit your target. Clients we serve, work 18 hours which means you will have to be available to service them. Lastly, if you work for this company for 5 years, you are mostly unemployable for any other industry as you dont really learn any core skills. Its not sales, not marketing, not supply chain, not research, not account management!! All you learn is - soft skills, working in teams, time pressure etc.

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.