Great Talent and people, but don't expect talent to be brought out of you - Anonymous employee Greenberg Strategy Employee Review

* You're expected to know how to operate at 100% in the first week * Don't expect helpful training or career guidance * Lack of workflow and little to no cross-communication between teams * Opaque management decisions with abrupt changes that are rarely explained, and poorly communicated GB gets their top talent by tossing people into the deep end on Day 1 and seeing what shakes out, rather than recruiting top talent. My training consisted of hour-long sessions where someone read off a document. I was expected to know have a handle on everything once I was handed a 20-item checklist and shown how to use a very complicated spreadsheet. My particular manager was less experienced than the two others on the team and had no idea how to bring out the best in someone. Career trajectory seemed to be based mainly on seniority. If someone sticks around long enough, they get Senior in their job title, usually when someone else is let go. The lack of a good workflow process made operations difficult and inefficient. Close communication with other teams to fulfill a project was basically non-existent and made it difficult to track tasks that were being done. Inclusiveness at GB is purely social and is not practiced with managerial decisions on strategic or personnel changes. Critical operational changes are typically communicated as a single sentence in the middle of a very long meeting about other topics. More than once during my tenure, someone would abruptly leave GB "to do something different" and in one case, a very tenured person left the building sobbing.