Good company, but can be soul crushing - Senior Research Manager GLG Employee Review

4.0
Dec 12, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

really good benefits free barista in office potentially flexible schedule depending on your manager good place to start out

Cons

everything is urgent they change goals, technology, team structure, client alignments, etc every single year forced days in office, but most teams are spread across the US/EMEA (new global initiative has your team members in EMEA but you have no overlapping responsibilities together) toxic corporate climb the ladder culture, if you aren't friends with the right people you will not get promoted Senior leadership puts priority on the wrong things (AI that does a terrible job at what its supposed to do) instead of actually listening to the feedback lower levels give - and will gaslight you by saying you can "only give solution based feedback" so you cannot pointout painpoints unless you do their job for them and tell them how it can be fixed

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5.0
Mar 31, 2026
Recommend
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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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