Not worth the trouble - Anonymous employee Global Counsel Employee Review

3.0
12 Sept 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunity to work with colleagues with a range of interesting backgrounds. Decent work/life balance but vastly dependant on line manager. Some genuine attempts to improve DE&I but only at the surface.

Cons

Makes unrealistic promises about the nature of GC's work during the hiring stage so overqualified people end up in a role vastly different to what was intially described. Pay for most staff is ludicrously below market average, unless they've recently moved from another firm. Salary transparency is frowned upon by senior management, likely because members of the same teams doing the same work often have 10-20k pay disparities. There are pretty huge questions around whether or not the finance team are just not paying anyone's pensions. It seems GC is facing repercussions for poor financial planning during its expansion.

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5.0
5 Nov 2022
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Pros

Intellectually curious, genuinely nice, interesting people to work with, no matter where they are in the world.

Cons

Some growing pains as company expands, but management seem to be on top of it.

4.0
24 Apr 2024
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Pros

-Collegial environment - work with cool clients

Cons

-often rewarded for visibility across offices, rather than the quality of your work.

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