Pros
It's a decent entry level job and company if you are freshly graduated or if you have minimal work experience. You get a good understanding of how financial services institutions work and how the investment life cycle works.
Cons
Unless you are in the A team of the BU boss' favorites, you don't get any facetime with the senior management. Often your direct managers are very inexperienced and utterly unsuitable to manage a team of young associates. They lack empathy and people skills and are very poorly trained. The job gets boring and dull after a few months even if the volume of projects you work on daily is very high and fast-paced. It's the same thing over and over again. The pay is the opposite of competitive. Compared to GLG's competitors, associates and SRAs earn way less than peers at Alphasights or Third Bridge. We don't get any commission despite high volumes and numbers. The bonus is non-negotiable and they don't provide you with any parameter they used to decide it. You often work 9-19. The internal communication sucks and despite yearly surveys where employees consistently stress this problem, they don't do anything to address and fix this issue. Career wise, they tend to change the rules for promotion mid-way and you get screwed over easily. After a certain level, you don't progress anymore. If you are not a favorite, you are treated as a b-level employee if you are not ignored altogether. The C-level managers, including the CEO, have no charisma at all. You learn very little from your client who - if you are in a Regional team - you don't see very often.