a great place to start a career if you don't know what you want to do - Research Manager GLG Employee Review

1.0
3 Apr 2017
Recommend
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Pros

They hire bright minds from very prestigious schools, so in many cases your colleagues will be intelligent and exciting to work with.

Cons

Just a politically toxic culture. There is no effort at real career or personal development. There is realistically only one track in which someone is able to progress and there is no flexibility for movement across the organization. The management is not empowered to truly develop their employees other than to push for performance. The result is an impersonal environment with no room for growth. The entire company's morale is truly depressing. GLG prides themselves most on client management skills and the development of "soft skills", but really they just push young recent graduates to follow a script without actually developing any sort of true client ownership and management. The "soft skills" are quite often unmarketable elsewhere. It is a churn and burn environment that they pretend is not. All of the most talented people leave within a few years, meaning that management is mostly comprised of the people who have "stuck around"

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5.0
31 Mar 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
14 Jun 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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