Pros
The people were the best part. I was a recent grad, and everyone who worked there was in their 20s - so it was easy to make friends.
Cons
UNQUALIFIED MANAGEMENT was my main reason for leaving GLG. During my time there, I was "micromanaged" - if you can call it that. My manager would put her laptop on my desk while I worked and "shadow" me while she online shopped for hours, and occasionally she looked up to criticize what I was doing. I also wasn't trained properly. I repeatedly asked my manager for their feedback, as I'd never been in a recruitment role before, and told her what I needed help with - but she flat out told me she didn't have time to train me because other people on my team needed her help more (despite me being unable to hit my numbers and obviously needing the help). Also, she would purposefully miscommunicate information from upper management. She repeatedly lied to my whole team, telling them us that the amount of recruitment opportunities we were assigned were out of her control, and that she couldn't control who got more or less opportunities - it was a total lie, and when we told another manager she got called out for it and had to equalize our workloads across the board. She was picking and choosing who got more opportunities to recruit. There was also just her general rudeness, she called helping us her "charity work", my teammates would come out of 1x1s with her crying their eyes out on a DAILY basis, she told one of my co-workers, within their first 2 weeks at this job, that they should just quit now, as she didn't think they'd be worth much at GLG. It was insane. All of this was told to HR and all that was said was "Oh, we've gotten a lot of similar complaints about her before, but we're just not looking to change up management at the moment." Lastly my manager didn't understand the basic functions of my role. She was transferred to management from a non-management position in a completely different role. You can imagine how someone who has never done your job can set unrealistic expectations, and be completely useless when it comes to training people. Her version of training was just telling you to do better or you'd probably be fired. It was great. The STRESSFUL ENVIRONMENT was the other reason I couldn't stand it there a minute longer. Every second of every day everyone was constantly compared to their peers. There is a giant whiteboard that every recruitment team uses - that everyone can see, where we write in how we're performing metrics-wise, real-time. Numbers were everything. You could stretch yourself thin by working late every night, COLD-CALLING (which is an integral part of the job, and you're asked to do it on a regular basis), and following up with leads - and none of that matters if just one thing falls through and you don't hit your numbers. This job is not a measure of effort, but it is a measure of efficiency, metrics, and luck.
