Toxic Culture - Project Manager GLG Employee Review

1.0
2 Jul 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great colleagues that work there, from associates to managers.

Cons

Unfortunately, I am extremely concerned about HRs inability to protect its employees in the private equity segment. During my time at the company I observed bullying, coercion and threatening behaviour if you raised any issues about workload or company culture. Mental and physical health is also disregarded - employees with poor mental and physical (including long term illnesses) were told “off the record” to find jobs elsewhere as GLG could not do work adjustments for people who were facing physical illnesses. This is a serious breach of employee rights and should be reported to an independent body. Employees were too scared to tell HR that they were being pushed out due to their physical and mental illnesses and didn’t raise it as they didn’t want to make their day to day even worse. The management responsible for breaching the Equality Act has received promotions, rather than being cautioned. I myself was threatened by a senior individual when I spoke out about workload - she ensured to derail my career and shared information of what I had said, leading to harassment from other colleagues. I had no choice but to stop speaking out as I had seen many individuals suffer before (and after) me. My colleagues were too scared to speak out about their experiences for fear of retaliation. These are very serious allegations to make and I do so for the many employees who have suffered under this management. I would expect that HR conduct a full review and protect employees anonimity when they raise their issues.

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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

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1.0
27 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Not applicable at all (truly)

Cons

Genuinely I don’t know where to start. I’ve submitted and deleted two reviews in the past 3 months alone. On the surface GLG seems like the place to be to learn from members and executives, but just give it a little bit of time and you’ll quickly see how obvious the cracks are. The culture here is so toxic, managers either do not know or don’t want to delegate project work so you’ll find yourself getting whiplash just trying to get information related to your job from your OWN BOSS. At the same time everyone you interact with is the epitome of “that’s not my job”. The executive leadership team is a mean girls club made up entirely of friends of friends who have their direct reports working well into the night to pull things together so that they look good. The “motivators” the executives use is truly bullying (like constantly pulling up your job description to purposefully make you look and feel small) any other organization would identify making your employees purposely feel stupid and shut down as straight bullying. It’s truly no surprise that you will regularly see employees crying in the hallways. I have never seen a leadership team this incompetent.

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