Used to be better. - Anonymous employee GIC Employee Review

4.0
Aug 1, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Highly regarded and well serviced by rest of industry, especially sell side community. Good access to some of the best investment practitioners. Compensation levels, including bonuses, easily match market.

Cons

Becoming increasingly bureaucratic. People learning quickly that to move ahead you need to get involved in lots of non-investment organizational activities.

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5.0
Jun 7, 2026
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Pros

Great company to work for. They pay above fairly, people are friendly and benefits / employee life - work balance is amazing.

Cons

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1.0
Jul 6, 2026
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Pros

Good vision, good talent (under bad management), market rate compensation

Cons

​Incompetent Leadership: Constant, chaotic reorganizations driven by new senior leads looking for short-term wins rather than sustainable engineering. ​Tone-Deaf Management: Townhalls are heavily curated to ignore genuine feedback regarding burnout and management debt. ​The "Silent Layoff" Strategy: Mass PIPs and aggressive performance grading are being used to quietly trim headcount, destroying team morale. ​Inefficient Ecosystem: Paralyzing security and risk processes block execution at every turn, while engineering teams are expected to run at 200%+ capacity. ​Inefficient HR: A heavy layer of senior HR personnel who offer zero practical guidance, zero empathy, and zero worker protection.

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