Pros
The Flathead Valley is beautiful—unfortunately, you’ll rarely enjoy it. Your coworkers (those not in leadership) are smart, supportive, and just as trapped as you.
Cons
GL Solutions is one of the most backward, demoralizing places I’ve ever worked. The company hides behind its 25-year history while rejecting any form of progress or accountability. Leadership is completely disconnected from reality, obsessed with control, and proud of processes that belong in a museum. Any questioning of their methods is met with defensiveness or retaliation. Employees are micromanaged through outdated "policy-based" systems that make everything harder than it needs to be. Nothing is modern—training is a joke, documentation is stale, and tools are cobbled together like a high school IT project. Compensation is monthly (never worked at a company that practices this), and tied to arbitrary productivity formulas that feel more like punishment than incentive. The culture is driven by fear and enforced compliance. Leadership isolates itself in meetings, retreats and silos, while everyone else burns out or gets pushed out. Turnover is non-stop, morale is nonexistent, and any attempt at innovation is killed by layers of bureaucracy and ego. They call it a “shop” because that’s exactly what it is: production-line thinking applied to knowledge work, where humans are treated like replaceable cogs.