GLG Junior Associate/Council Development Associate reviews

2.4

68% would recommend to a friend

(27 total reviews)
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Gemma Postlethwaite

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Junior Associate/Council Development Associate employees have rated GLG with 2.4 out of 5 stars, based on 27 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Junior Associate/Council Development Associate professionals have an average working experience there. GLG is rated 35% below average by Junior Associate/Council Development Associate professionals compared to other employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Feb 18, 2020
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Pros

- You go to work and you get paid at the end of the month. - Good location.

Cons

- Benefits (only health and dental insurance and occasional meals/breakfast). - Payment and Commissions: The job offer is a scam. They offer a basic salary plus minimum commissions of 10-15k but the truth is that you will have to overachieve the target (working extra hours or getting London projects) to be able to get that amount of bonus. - Different salaries depending on your native language (even though you don't specifically work for your market but globally). - Management: micromanagement who only treat you as a number and only cares about your performance. Management get rid of people quite easily in the first 6 probation months. Management usually gives you a the permanent contract if you get on well with him/them. If management don't like you, you are fired (even if you achieve targets, they will find an excuse). No transparency in targets, one to ones (they say A and then it is B). Pressure (management send emails, messages, schedule meetings with you just to talk about your performance and pressure you to do better (again, even if you are doing well and meeting goals). - Development: not at all. - Quite repetitive and boring job. They "sell" you the job as the most interesting and skilled role and they only hire smart people and once you are there you realize the easiness of it and get sick of it pretty quickly.

1.0
Sep 8, 2019

BUYER BEWARE

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Pros

Awesome coworkers! Catered lunch on Tuesdays Team happy hours

Cons

No upward mobility opportunities Unreasonable Metrics High attrition rate

2.0
Jun 21, 2019
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Pros

I think that one of the greatest pros is that in this corporate temple, called GLG, you can learn about ways to worship a mighty metric-god, called XYZ, for the sake of confidentiality. During the 2.5 weeks of worshipping training, you can get well indoctrinated that feeding enough numbers to XYZ (and also its sub-metrics) is the most important activity in the temple and beyond in afterlife. Besides getting to study this lovely corporate religion, you can also get exposure to high-ranking Vice Parsons and Team Priests of the GLG church if you, for any reason, fall short of the commandments. As this is sacrilege, they will show you the benefits of the use of intimidation and existential fear, in the most sanctimonious ways, as means of motivation in the GLG church for achieving weekly sacrifices. You will be happy and motivated to come to worship every day of the week, including bank holidays, which goes without saying.

Cons

While the XYZ and its compound metrics prevail as Gods, the church seems to have begun to recognize the need of making the religion a tiny bit more humane and more appealing to potential and current GLGers, but in vain, since many have still been turning away from it, impeding a shift to worshipping different Gods, which is hoped to bring joy in working here. On a more serious note, if you want to learn about (t)ruthless US corporate culture, go no further, you will get a good taste at GLG.

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