Pluspunten
Some of my lower-level coworkers were ok before they got quiet fired or left because this place is terrible.
Minpunten
I worked here for more than a year and here’s what I saw across all departments and levels of expertise consistently . 1.) NO LEADERSHIP ACCOUNTABILITY. This company doubled in size from 2022 to 2023, and made no effort to train the new members of its work force in any meaningful way. They hired a huge internship pool in 2023, paying them more than some of their full-time employees got paid which turned out to be roughly 1/4 million dollars, and then when they couldn’t replicate their 2022 successes on a larger scale (because this crop of new hires and interns was expected to be trained by the employees that were already overloaded while working for clients in downward trending markets), so they cut more than 10% of the jobs in the company to save their annual profit margins. They could have invested in those people, but they didn’t and chose to ruin their lives with no warning or apology or acknowledgement of fault. Less than a month later, they instituted a department ranking system so at any given moment, they knew each employee’s value. At a company meeting 3 weeks later, they bragged about still being ‘healthy’ and made it out to be the fault of those terminated because they ‘weren't meeting expectations’. I was in a management role, and not all those people were performing poorly. It was strictly messaged that way to save face. 2.) LOW SALARIES, NO CULTURE, BARELY ANY GOOD BENEFITS. They will pay you way less than you are worth and expect you to carry an impossible account load. If you’re even remotely competent, you’ll also be expected to train new hires with no room for it in your task load. You will be expected to track every second of time worked and will receive more work than you can possibly actually complete. Then you’ll also be tracked on the deadlines you meet and you’ll have to fight tooth and nail to make sure those deadlines are reasonable. Spoiler, YOU WILL NOT GET ANY HELP. IF YOU ASK FOR HELP, YOU MIGHT AS WELL SIGN YOUR OWN PINK SLIP. Oh! And the company refuses to allow remote/hybrid work more than once a week because the owners just don’t trust employees to do their work. I also personally think it’s actually because they wanted to lease a bigger building (like they had something to prove) and want to actually use it when they could have eliminated the office altogether and saved on the overhead costs. They want to maintain the old ways and have no interest in adapting to modern, healthy work culture. 3.) NO PERSONAL OR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. This company will preach that it’s a premiere agency to its new hires, walk you through a day of orientation about the agency and its history, and then does absolutely nothing to nurture its new employees. That’s left up to managers who have zero time because they’re still managing their own accounts on top of their teams. So then it’s pushed to the high level specialists who are not officially told they need to work after hours, but usually do if they want to keep their jobs. 4.) THERE IS NO DIVERSITY OR INCLUSIVITY. Look at the reviews left and their demographics. This company seldomly appeared to make an effort to hire anyone that doesn’t look like the able-bodied white, male CEOs that are Christian. God forbid you ask for anything to help you do your job if you have any mental or social impediments like anxiety or auditory processing impairments. 5.) THEY DON’T FOLLOW THEIR OWN HANDBOOK AND THERE IS NO SOP. If for any reason, your performance is an issue, they won’t give you the specifics or chance to make it right like they claim in the handbook. They may tell you what’s expected of you, but they won’t tell you how to get there, i.e. if you are having trouble with a new process, they won’t give you written instructions to get better. They will simply tell you you’re not doing well and to fix it ASAP, and expect that fix instantaneously. They will not give you any written warnings like their handbook states, but rather, they will tell you on Friday to get better and then walk you out on Monday if it isn’t. SUMMARY: There’s more than I could go on about. But bottom line is DO MOT WORK HERE. GLI will claim it’s a lovely place to work but that’s because the only people who have a decent work-life balance and salary are the C-suites and tenured employees who were there before they became a company with any merit more than 7 years ago.