Has potential but can't figure out what it wants to be - Senior Manager GLG Employee Review

2.0
Jul 30, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Great office space with all the nice perks (e.g., in-house barista, drinks, standing desks etc). Company is young and there is always an energy in the office. You can feel the impact that your work has for clients. Opportunity to work with great people in a fun culture.

Cons

No work-life balance. It varies from team to team, but for my team working late nights and weekends is common. Senior leadership only cares about profitability. Teams providing different types of services to clients will be reviewed with the same target ROI in mind even when it doesn't make sense and they are providing completely different services to clients. Constant change in the company with re-organizations and restructuring. Account alignments change every year, making everyone's jobs more difficult. Senior leadership doesn't get any feedback from the company in a systematic or organized way. At one point they announced that they would send quarterly surveys to the whole company to get feedback on an ongoing basis. They did it once and stopped. There is no systematic way to provide feedback as an employee unless you share your view with your manager and hope the message gets passed up the chain or you play the office politics game. The execs even tell you they ignore all the reviews on glassdoor cause they believe its just people complaining.

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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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