Politics, Fear-oriented & mind control worse management - Senior Associate GLG Employee Review

1.0
10 Dec 2024
Recommend
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Pros

not really some pros there

Cons

Management is super bad, they don’t have any actual management skills, only knows how to use fear and mind control to subordinates, here is no career development opportunity at all, management level knows how to play the game and keep ppl here. Lack of strategy during work due to low quality team, ppl here leave the company in 6-1.5 year normally, tbh you cannot learn real knowledge and skills here. You are just the robot and gear for the company. If you want to actually learn sth, you need to use your off work time. During the work, you are just a call center. And in this company you need to work 24/7 without getting paid for overtime work for the whole year. Besides, there are gender bias here and so many dirty things happened, the compliance head here is very good at bullying many juniors and the work ethic of the compliance head is quite poor. Here are a lot of politics and you better be smart enough to survive here.

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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
14 June 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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