Politics, Fear-oriented & mind control worse management - Senior Associate GLG Employee Review

1.0
Dec 10, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

not really some pros there

Cons

Management is super bad, they don’t have any actual management skills, only knows how to use fear and mind control to subordinates, here is no career development opportunity at all, management level knows how to play the game and keep ppl here. Lack of strategy during work due to low quality team, ppl here leave the company in 6-1.5 year normally, tbh you cannot learn real knowledge and skills here. You are just the robot and gear for the company. If you want to actually learn sth, you need to use your off work time. During the work, you are just a call center. And in this company you need to work 24/7 without getting paid for overtime work for the whole year. Besides, there are gender bias here and so many dirty things happened, the compliance head here is very good at bullying many juniors and the work ethic of the compliance head is quite poor. Here are a lot of politics and you better be smart enough to survive here.

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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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