Pros
A very few good people.
Kontras
There are a few very good people who work here, and you will always want better for them. You learn about your coworkers’ families and lives, and you realize no one deserves to work here. Some people leave, and you feel sad because they were integral to your team. Some people leave, and you’re happy they’re finally gone. Others come back out of necessity, and your heart drops because again, no one deserves to work here. For so long, your calls to better your team, company, and managers get drowned out and brushed off. You get borderline harassed by those highest up to increase pressure, workloads, and expedite deadlines. Expect calls in the middle of the night. Expect slack messages at 10 p.m. Expect to stay after hours and sacrifice your weekends. This is what they expect of you. And if you disagree and want a life outside of work, speak up and say something, you become a target. An example they can use to gaslight others into capitulating. Every day you hope you get a response from the other companies you've been applying for so you can finally leave. Maybe you have loved ones who depend on you, so you try to make the best of it you can, but every day at GLI makes your life more miserable; you begin to feel trapped. There are cliques that gang together in every department. The best way to get through your time at this company is to be as hands-off as possible and keep to yourself. There are deeply disturbed individuals who work here. It’s not worth wasting your time; it’s not worth making yourself susceptible to such an environment. The 2.4 rating is manipulated. It used to be 1.8, but summer interns who are not full-time are encouraged to submit 5-star reviews to bump the overall score (including some by the owner's children). Real people with real lives get ruined at this company. Fresh-out-of-college kids get thrown into the fire and severely underpaid. I’ve heard salaries of $ 36k for some new full-time workers. I’ve seen extremely smart people and extremely hard workers get overlooked and their opinions ignored. This is why turnover is so high. You only climb the ladder if you’re a favorite and suck up to your higher-ups while putting others down. Current workers know this. This company operates under false promises and blackmail. Intimidation, gossip, and secrecy run rampant, while management gets salary increases for lateral movements that are falsely labeled as “restructuring.” All of this is my opinion from my personal experience working here. Do not work here. Don't let people you care about work here.