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GLG

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GLG reviews

2.6

24% would recommend to a friend

(2,300 total reviews)
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Gemma Postlethwaite

23% approve of CEO

20% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.3

Diversity & inclusion

2.7

Culture & values

2.7

Compensation and benefits

2.6

Work/Life balance

2.3

Career opportunities

2.0

Senior management

GLG has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,300 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The GLG employee rating is 30% below average for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Jul 17, 2019

OK first job, but expect a toxic corporate culture full of lost souls

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Great job to develop professional, interpersonal (soft) skills - Work closely with leading firms and corporations - Smart and interesting colleagues for the most part - Nice office location (heart of downtown ATX) - Free coffee bar - Free Tuesday lunch (though the food itself is not good) - Work on interesting projects here and there

Cons

- You don't learn any hard skills on the client solutions team (or any other teams for that matter, unless you're a part of strategy or engineering) - Terrible middle management system. Your direct manager can be as young as 23 and often no older than 28. Clear lack of diverse and interesting perspectives to learn from - Open format office. Some people may find that to be a Pro, but to me it's very distracting and frustrating to hear endless chatter throughout the workday - No real incentives until you reach Team Lead role (I.e. no quarterly bonuses/incentives for client solutions managers or associates even though they are the ones driving the output and managing client relationships) - Emphasis on "continuous improvement" means that new technology is rolled out with several bugs that can take several days or weeks to address - Senior leadership regularly side steps questions on employee turnover during company-wide Town Halls. Their attempts at improving company culture are abysmal Overall: GLG is not necessarily a bad company to work for if the above Cons don't align with your preferences. The phrase "you learn a mile wide and an inch deep" is true there. So if you're a lost soul and don't know which industry you want to be in, then GLG might be right for you as a FIRST job. I'd never recommend this to anyone who is already in the workforce.

4.0
Apr 7, 2018

A balanced approach to evaluating GLG

Research manager
Recommend
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Pros

I worked in NAFS Research in Austin, and my remarks should be evaluated in that light. I can not speak at all for the PSF or Support divisions in the company. For a certain kind of person, GLG is a great place to start a career: 1. You are fresh out of college. 2. You want a path to a career in managing people. 3. You are a liberal arts major looking for a comparatively high paying job for your skills. 4. You are an extravert who derives satisfaction from pleasing people. 5. Your career is your number 1 priority in your life. 6. You want to learn office politics. 7. You are at the Austin office, or at least not in New York. From limited experience, I do not recommend working at the New York office if you can be elsewhere. GLG is comparatively unique, I think, in giving fresh out of college liberal arts majors a chance to manage people in a comparatively short amount of time. And the employees, in general, are very nice. I'm shocked by the number of complaints about diversity in these reviews. I believe GLG has more women managing people than men. I was part of many junior hiring decisions made at the company, and a person's race, gender, or sexual orientation never came up in discussions. The company is also very LGBT friendly. (It is true though, that at the very highest levels of management, that it's all men.) Despite being in the "financial sector" most of the company's employees are Democrats. The company is extremely strong on sexual harassment prevention - and I was there before the "Me Too" period. It was made abundantly clear we'd be fired if we engaged in such behavior. The training, led by Senior (Legal) Counsel Patrick Gordon, is very good. (In general the company's Legal and Compliance teams are very good personally and professionally. Most of them are based in Austin. I recommend getting to know them.) All taken together, I think the company was - in the grand scheme of things - improving when I left.

Cons

For a certain kind of person, GLG is a subpar place to advance your career: - You are an experienced hire and manager. Your possibilities for career advancement are limited, and largely depend on whether your boss quits. Many of the best managers realize this and leave the company. This leads to a disproportionally high amount of managers who've been 'promoted to their level of incompetence' (as the old saying goes) to run the company. - You are an introvert. - You seek an intellectually stimulating job. - You have a degree in business. - Your career is not your top priority in life. - You are not a "people pleaser". - You have an advanced degree. - You are not good at office politics, and have no desire to learn office politics. - You openly support Trump. I STRONGLY DISLIKE Trump, but think all employees should feel comfortable discussing politics. At the junior level, the company won't fire you if you're incompetent. But they won't promote you either. Most managers are uncomfortable with confrontation. Your success at the company is strongly correlated with how great your manager is. But I think that's unfortunately true with most businesses. Still, the company should address it.

1.0
Mar 29, 2018

Senior Associate Program

Senior program associate
Recommend
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Pros

barely living wage although not exactly if you divide it over the hours you're expected to work without clocking overtime

Cons

This "job" is a scam; I graduated from a top tier university and spent 8 months working in the "Senior Associate Program" after I had spent a year in the Peace Corps. They lie to you about the nature of the work that you'll be doing-- I spent my whole day cold messaging people on LinkedIn. The workplace has very little racial diversity, and it is cliquey in a fratty, unintellectual way. Only apply if you literally have no other option.

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