Smart & vibrant culture, but metrics don't make sense - Research Manager GLG Employee Review

3.0
Mar 9, 2018
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Pros

The best thing about GLG continues to be the people--GLG is excellent at hiring interesting and curious people that are generally a joy to work with. The offices are nice, particularly Austin's new office.

Cons

GLG trying very hard to find ways to create more role differentiation and professional development, but to be honest, the job just gets really old after a while. It's very hard to stay motivated. The have also way over-invested in metrics in a short period of time, with some teams being at a severe disadvantage on certain metrics over others. This has very real implications for workers when it comes to work-life balance, promotion, salary, and bonus, and it is very de-motivating to some excellent talent that frankly just gets screwed.

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5.0
Mar 31, 2026
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Pros

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!

Cons

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

1.0
Jun 27, 2026
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Pros

Not applicable at all (truly)

Cons

Genuinely I don’t know where to start. I’ve submitted and deleted two reviews in the past 3 months alone. On the surface GLG seems like the place to be to learn from members and executives, but just give it a little bit of time and you’ll quickly see how obvious the cracks are. The culture here is so toxic, managers either do not know or don’t want to delegate project work so you’ll find yourself getting whiplash just trying to get information related to your job from your OWN BOSS. At the same time everyone you interact with is the epitome of “that’s not my job”. The executive leadership team is a mean girls club made up entirely of friends of friends who have their direct reports working well into the night to pull things together so that they look good. The “motivators” the executives use is truly bullying (like constantly pulling up your job description to purposefully make you look and feel small) any other organization would identify making your employees purposely feel stupid and shut down as straight bullying. It’s truly no surprise that you will regularly see employees crying in the hallways. I have never seen a leadership team this incompetent.

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