Worst Company I have ever worked for - Council Development Associate GLG Employee Review

1.0
Feb 18, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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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.

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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
Recommend
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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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