GLG will make you a worse person. - Avis employé Vice President Research GLG

1,0
17 août 2018
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Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

Really none except for free coffee and drinks

Inconvénients

People: The root of the problem at GLG is the people. The people drive significant dysfunction throughout the entire organization, from top to bottom. At the junior level, the large majority lack sufficient training and experience to do the job that would truly put GLG ahead of competitors, so the work has evolved to serve the "least common denominator" employee, and became extremely mundane and boring for the good ones. They are taught only the most basic of basic skills in order to function at a barely acceptable level. They are fresh out of college and in dire need of robust training, which we completely miss the bar on at a massive scale. At the senior level, you have two types of people: 1) People who "grew up" at GLG, and therefore truly lack sufficient skills to do anything anywhere else, and therefore must be cutthroat, egotistical and highly unethical to survive (i.e., stealing work and presenting to senior colleagues as their own, lying, and in general being self-serving above and beyond the health of the company), and 2) People who came in with sufficient experience to drive impact, but are usually quick to depart because of the massive infrastructure challenges, including org, tech, and talent. Career advancement: My biggest regret is choosing to work for this firm, because it has been a terrible waste of time. Essentially, whatever talent and experience level you have when you come in is exactly what you will have when you leave. You will NOT grow here, so don't come in expecting to. You will have a tougher time in your search for the next thing, because what you do and what you learn at GLG is not valuable. Also, you are simply not working with high caliber people when you come to GLG, so don't expect to "learn from the best", the "best" are not here and they will not come here. Tech: Let's stop pretending we are a tech company, or even a bare minimum tech-enabled company. Our engineers are as incompetent as they are arrogant, and nothing is happening on the tech front unless a HUGE change is made over many many years. The large extent of GLG's internal problems are tech-driven, and there is virtually NO accountability in the tech function. Don't believe for a second that the ones who caused all of the issues will be the ones who fix them.

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5,0
31 mars 2026
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Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

Amazing people - lots of reviews say that because it's true. You'll work with smart, genuine, hard working humans. Good benefits and perks. Interesting events and opportunities to learn. Overall, a good place to start your career!

Inconvénients

Very fast-paced environment which definitely isn't for everyone. Lots of necessary change.

1,0
8 juin 2026
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Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

The trauma bond nature of this job does bring you to meet those people who can go on to be real friends. If you want a job to be your social circle, GLG is just the place for you. Some of the health benefits are well worth it and far above industry standard.

Inconvénients

There is not a single aspect of the company that has not depreciated in some noticeable way over the past three years (since Gemma took the helm). - Amenities have been stripped in every office (if your office is lucky enough to have survived) without any meaninful replacements. Multiple lunches a week have turned into pizza parties, but only when internal systems break. All US offices are failing for unique reasons. - Pay has increased unilaterally in the US twice in five years, once solely through a massive reorg and realignment of role scope. Raises are now tied to highly tiered (and capped) performance evaluations. Bonus schemes shift every year to remove payout at all seniorities, and the changes are not communicated in a forum where questions can be asked. - Technology integration has been haphasard at best and destructive at worst (e.g., AI tools cannot meet basic compliance requirements for tier 1 clients at go-live date). - Senior Leadership has not had a single 30-day period go by where the full Global Head+ org has stayed the same in nearly three years. Middle management has become almost entirely EMEA-based or EU citizens as they could not be laid off unlilke their US counterparts. - Organizational structures have collapsed, with senior leaders managing multiple mismatched groups of functional or client-facing roles, either in the name of cost savings or because someone saw double-digit growth for an entirely different segment over a decade ago. - Financial health, strategy updates, and company wide updates are effectively done. Any company- or BU-wide meetings are chances for internal PR; this also explains why they stopped doing them in-person (including when they're done on in-office days). - Resource allocation prioritizes those who already have them (e.g., more SVPs went on a President's Club trip than Managers, following only Senior Leaders in headcount). - ERGs are functionally dead, with stale group chats and programming locked behind whoever was the last person on an eboard years ago. Hiring diversity has plummeted and the organization is failing to attract talent that even understands what the job is (let alone could be considered top talent for it). Every day at GLG is another day figuring out what can be squeezed every so tightly further.

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