Gorilla Group Reviews

Increasingly toxic environment over time with key players in management. When things would go wrong or not as planned it often led to a witch hunt or pointing fingers at others. Often a scapegoat was needed to explain away issues and this would sometimes lead to driving them out of the organization. Top leadership tended towards immature and sometimes vengeful. A bullying culture seemed to appear over the years among some members in management. I believe a lot of the recent and significant turnover was related to this increasingly toxic environment. In terms of another review mentioning this as a great place for women, I have to take some issue with that. I often felt a boys club mentality existed and unprofessional comments were not out of the norm. Additionally in order to compete in this space to recruit top female talent, a competitive maternity leave policy should be put in place. 6 weeks of short term disability at not full pay is just not competitive in this space. The performances review process was not as comprehensive as it needed to be and if there are performance issues they should be addressed early and often and provide coaching opportunities. Not uncommon to blindside someone with performance concerns that were not earlier addressed. Leaders within the organization should also be held accountable as coaches for other staff members.

With a few exceptions, the people don't make good coworkers. It's a smaller company and banks on it's "culture," but there's a lot of political games, passive aggressive people, and ineffective leadership. My training was nonexistent, with one person going so far as to flat out lie in response to my questions. I told both my manager and HR and nothing was ever done. I never felt my colleagues actually wanted me to succeed - and that was a sentiment that was echoed in varying degrees from new employees in other areas as well. I enjoy working with people I can learn from and I never felt like there was a collaborative environment. No training/development except for what current employees will lead - who have also not received any real training. People are promoted to managers or leads and have no idea what they're doing and no way to learn unless they foot the bill themselves. When I left here and started a new job, I realized how much my professional growth had stalled during the time I spent at Gorilla Group. A common complaint was feeling lied to throughout the interview process and/or being lowballed. They are notoriously cheap. Promises made throughout the interview process were not kept. They have a ton of money wasted in write-offs. Even though they're on the Crain's Fast Fifty every year, the amount of money they make relative to the number of employees is lower than competitors in the same space. I was slightly concerned about their financial outlook.