FGS Global Reviews

Truly horrendous place to work. Long hours around the clock and a demand to respond to emails within minutes (seriously, management will time your response and you'll be penalized). You'll also be penalized if you don't bill enough hours to clients each week. They're also cheap so you can't expense meals or Ubers taken when you work long hours. There's a culture of intimidation from leadership and they allow a lot of toxic managers to run teams. No one has a direct manager so you're told to be "entrepreneurial" and figure it out yourself. Performance reviews are left to people who have little interaction with you, and it's not a 360 review process so they don't care about your feedback to leadership. Mid-level and junior team members gain no visibility because partners take credit for their work. Little opportunity for growth. Very much a boy's club. Women are spoken down to by old sexist white men across all teams. Aside from some token POCs for their DE&I team, it's pretty much an all white firm. They let the men who have been at the firm from the start get away with all kinds of bullying and bad behavior. And they know how to bury it because it's a crisis firm.

**BEWARE to anyone interviewing for the health care gov affairs team in DC.** I encourage you to explicitly ask what the turnover rate is, how many people they’ve lost over the last two years, and why they are losing people so quickly. One manager is single-handedly responsible for losing numerous people on the team. The team lacks adequate managers and there is no formal onboarding process. They came off as incredibly warm and inviting during the interview process but once you’re hired, the managers refuse to provide basic support to staff, discourage you from asking questions, and are quick to dismiss any concerns or feedback. The junior staff on the team was great— but it was clear they were also consistently overworked and unappreciated. Even when you try to communicate concerns/bandwidth issues to the managers, they do nothing to alleviate the issue, let alone acknowledge it. I am almost a decade into my professional career and have never felt so gaslit, dismissed, and discouraged by my bosses. I cannot speak to the rest of the firm, (though they generally seemed much happier and their managers seemed much more receptive), but I highly advise against working on this team.