An honest review - Anonymous employee Gilson Gray Employee Review

Please note these are my opinions from my experience: You have to work mandatory out of hours which includes working into the night and for whole days at the weekends. You won’t be told about it until you start. Sickness leave is ‘discretionary’. Not mentioned in the contract or sickness policy but they get to choose whether or not to pay you for any days you take as sick leave. All leave has to be booked the first week of January for the whole year. Given how big the teams are, there can only be one or two people off at a time so a lot of requests will be rejected. You will be dealing with your own 100+ file caseload, as well as constantly covering every other conveyancer in the team who is off. Somehow there are always people off so you will constantly be trying to juggle your own work as well as someone else’s. Likewise, when you are off, your files will be covered by another member of team who probably won’t have the time to work on your files and you’ll come back to weeks worth of backlog and still be expected to be hitting targets. Case management system is very old and inefficient. Some very unfriendly and unwelcoming people in the team. Overall, I would avoid at all costs. There are so many things that they just don’t tell you before you start and then will never take responsibility for it. I’ve never worked at a firm that treated staff so poorly.