Great colleagues, poor management - Manager GLG Employee Review

2.0
May 19, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Great colleagues and intelligent people to work with - Prestigious clients

Cons

- Favouritism: A cliquey culture. At a senior level people that band together push each other up and make other people feel like outsiders. Leadership follows this culture and handpicks their favourites for the right opportunities that will eventually justify promotions on paper - ignoring others. Opportunity distribution on the onset is unfair and a lot of deserving candidates are left out as they weren’t the right ‘personality’ or didn’t belong to the right clique - None to slow career advancement, no real world skill development. - The business model is behind the technology stack of most information services firms - Changes are made on a whim with almost no justification

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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 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good colleagues, arguably a good job post college (for like a year MAX)

Cons

I cannot stress enough how terrible this company is. Spent 5 years there, and watched it go further downhill every year. You leave with only soft skills (if that), and 0 actual industry knowledge. Seriously, you leave only knowing a bunch of Hocus Pocus. I am really surprised this company hasn't been bought yet. Or merged. On my team alone, we lost 7 out of our 9 managers since January... either due to layoffs or them quitting. Pay is low. There are no bonuses and it's very difficult to get a raise. 90k in NYC is poverty. There are bright people that come in with Masters, and PhDs, and MBAs -- handing them 90k is insulting.

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