Vantaggi
You'll meet some interesting people with varied backgrounds. The free junk food will seem like a pro at first.
Svantaggi
To fully illustrate how vague and misleading job descriptions lead to unhappy employees, here is a job description for a senior research associate accompanied by the real meaning of each responsibility. Support the client facing team - i.e. defending yourself that you've spent 3 days trawling LinkedIn and company websites and have no more leads, cringing as your boss tells you to practically stalk leads on facebook, twitter, or finding their home phone number. Or calling former colleagues they haven't spoken to for ten years. Or recruiting the exact profile you've been given only to learn that the client is no longer interested - in this case the recruit doesn't count towards the metric that is most crucial to promotion at GLG. Facilitating educational interactions - i.e. asking a council member if they can discuss a certain topic (they will have probably had 2 or 3 similar calls in the last few days and will be irritated with you asking the same things), pressing a couple of buttons to schedule a call. Rescheduling with the council member when the client changes the time. Ad infinitum. Enhancing the GLG Councils - More LinkedIn stalking and a few recruitment calls during which you try to mask the apathy in your voice as you repeat the same questions and call centre disclaimers on each call over and over Working towards growing GLG client relationships - cold calling clients when you KNOW they don't want to talk in order to fulfill nonsensical team metrics On top of all this, GLG asks that you have '2+ years of work experiences as client-facing or Analyst roles in relevant industries'. It's hard to convey just how ludicrous this requirement is. The only skills you need to do well at GLG are a love of cold calling and a certain imperviousness to the blatant daily irritation of clients and council members. To reiterate the sentiment expressed in other reviews, your clients absolutely do not consider you as inside their intellectual loop and will make that clear in your interactions. Consulting this is not.