Pros
- Only pro was my last day. Period. - CEO and COO pressure the assistants and interns to write positive reviews by calling them into the CEO's office. Horrible culture of manipulation and dishonesty. Absolutely no one likes coming to work due to toxic culture. Likely, CEO will have interns coming in this weekend to write reviews after reading this.
Cons
- Where to begin. They treat clients like dirt. Partners will say anything to get hired and then check out when the deal begins and leave everything to the analysts and few associates who are still begrudgingly employees. More than 20 partners and only ~10 junior bankers as of July 1 - doesn't sound like white glove client service to me. - Toxic work environment: Every single analyst and associate is currently interviewing to leave. Average non-partner junior banker turnover of ~75% every year or so. How can you possibly run a client-service business when the majority of the junior team leaves within one year? One of the first years just quit within five days of starting after that person was exposed to the toxicity of AGC. - CEO and COO runs business by fear. Monitors interns to partner's time in the office and often ask people to check in when they arrive in the morning or when they are out for a 10 minute lunch. Small things like if any employee has a doctor's appointment for 30 minutes, they need to get permission and sign-off by the CEO to go. Even the COO is afraid to leave the office before the CEO leaves for the day. He often stays 4-6 minutes after the CEO departs for the day and then spinelessly sneaks out himself. These are grown men who act like fearful children. It is pathetically funny to watch happen though. - Negative vacations day: Let me explain, they require that analysts come into the office for a mandatory block of 6 hours every third weekend (Christmas, Easter, July 4th - it doesn't matter - you better be in.) The CEO will call you at your desk to make sure that you are there - everyone lies to him and makes up pretend work to avoid his wrath. Back to the math around negative vacation days: analysts get 10 vacation days per year and if you assume 10 hour work days, then you have 100 vacation hours per year. For mandatory weekend hours, coming in for 6 hours every third weekend requires employees to be in the office 104 hours a year (17 weekends * 6 hours per), meaning that you actually don't get any vacation at AGC - you owe 4 extra work hours every year - What a magical place.
