Manager - Manager GLG Employee Review

Great place with many smart, fun, and dedicated people trying to do the right thing. I’ve been at GLG for many years (8+) and this is a wonderful place to learn about many industry sectors, have some autonomy, have your opinion heard and get exposure to many industries (HC, Tech, Consumer, Energy, Industrials, etc,), geographies (the company has 22 offices around the world), and client types (private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, investment banks, management consulting, social impact investors, etc.). GLG is a highly flexible malleable “platform” as a business model and as an employee it effectively serves the samepurpose. The best and most ambitious employees recruit and form relationships with senior and influential experts - executives, economists, former government officials - and clients, the smartest investors in the world and can parlay that into anything from attending a top business school, going to work for a client, or becoming more senior within the company. My sense is that the negative comments on here are from some people very early in their career (first job) who are looking for every minute issue (a minor dispute with a manager for instance) to be solved / handled for them vs. dealt with head on like an adult. Perhaps stemming from too much “lawn mower” parenting. Tons of opportunity to take the bull by the horns and get huge professional value out of GLG. Too many people relying on a company to solve for all of their professional learning vs. taking ownership of the opportunity in front of them The HR department is accessible, highly competent and run by empathetic people wanting to do the right thing personally and professionally. Yes, people work hard and at times work long hours when there is a job to be done (and get satisfaction out of that). My sense is that many of the negative comments here are from people looking for an extension of their college experience and being under their parents wing to navigate their lives vs. the realization that this is the real world...a job...a career, and that you’ve got to own your own destiny.