Look elsewhere - Anonymous employee GLG Employee Review

2.0
Sep 13, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Co-workers, great views from the office, free coffee, casual dress code.

Cons

Long hours with the expectation that you will continue to respond to clients until 9:30pm and on weekends. No parking, they only reimburses a partial amount for garages downtown that doesn’t come close to the full amount. Metrics heavy even when the metrics can seem unrealistic given clients propensity to cancel projects on a whim leaving your hard work unaccounted for. Unlimited PTO is not actually unlimited. This is a recruiting job. Any position in client services is all about recruiting and recruiting the best candidate in a very small window of time. Hardly any actual client development, that is all handled by BD.

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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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