Would give a 0 if I could - Anonymous employee GLG Employee Review

1.0
27 Jan 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- AMAZING barista (hope his business is going well) - USED to be a super fun place with great coworkers - Decent pay for certain corporate roles - Room for growth in corporate functions (only because people keep leaving)

Cons

- New leadership is extremely incompetent and willfully ignorant - C-suite refused to address concerns and areas of improvement from surveys. You will hear, "We hear you, we see you," from the CEO during townhall meetings, but nothing will ever change - Finance department once gave a satisfaction rating of 33% on a survey and voiced many concerns, but CFO only acknowledged the "WFH complaints," which were few and far in between - Turnover is extremely high. Some finance teams saw a 100% attrition rate less than 2 years after the CFO inherited the teams *eyes* - Employees are viewed as numbers for the bottom line and cogs in the machine. There is no longer any sense of loyalty to the workers or rewards for good work - Laid off a large number of veterans (15+ years) with minimal or no backfill to increase shareholder value, resulting in dissent and increased workload - Feels more like a sweatshop to hit targets - 4 days in office even though everything can be done from home. Imagine making calls on the floor and yelling into the mic because everyone around you is also on a call - No conference rooms because senior leadership saw fit to take them and make them their personal offices, even though the office was designed to have everyone sit on the floor together

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5.0
31 Mar 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
8 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The trauma bond nature of this job does bring you to meet those people who can go on to be real friends. If you want a job to be your social circle, GLG is just the place for you. Some of the health benefits are well worth it and far above industry standard.

Cons

There is not a single aspect of the company that has not depreciated in some noticeable way over the past three years (since Gemma took the helm). - Amenities have been stripped in every office (if your office is lucky enough to have survived) without any meaninful replacements. Multiple lunches a week have turned into pizza parties, but only when internal systems break. All US offices are failing for unique reasons. - Pay has increased unilaterally in the US twice in five years, once solely through a massive reorg and realignment of role scope. Raises are now tied to highly tiered (and capped) performance evaluations. Bonus schemes shift every year to remove payout at all seniorities, and the changes are not communicated in a forum where questions can be asked. - Technology integration has been haphasard at best and destructive at worst (e.g., AI tools cannot meet basic compliance requirements for tier 1 clients at go-live date). - Senior Leadership has not had a single 30-day period go by where the full Global Head+ org has stayed the same in nearly three years. Middle management has become almost entirely EMEA-based or EU citizens as they could not be laid off unlilke their US counterparts. - Organizational structures have collapsed, with senior leaders managing multiple mismatched groups of functional or client-facing roles, either in the name of cost savings or because someone saw double-digit growth for an entirely different segment over a decade ago. - Financial health, strategy updates, and company wide updates are effectively done. Any company- or BU-wide meetings are chances for internal PR; this also explains why they stopped doing them in-person (including when they're done on in-office days). - Resource allocation prioritizes those who already have them (e.g., more SVPs went on a President's Club trip than Managers, following only Senior Leaders in headcount). - ERGs are functionally dead, with stale group chats and programming locked behind whoever was the last person on an eboard years ago. Hiring diversity has plummeted and the organization is failing to attract talent that even understands what the job is (let alone could be considered top talent for it). Every day at GLG is another day figuring out what can be squeezed every so tightly further.

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