Better before the layoffs started - Systems Engineer G-Research Employee Review

3.0
Feb 9, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The barristas are good if you're in the main office. The hybrid days are pretty good, with 10 days per month WFH.

Cons

Well the layoffs (3rd February 2023) were pretty bad. Didn't affect me directly but plenty of friends/colleagues were. They were all asked to resign and given a small payoff and NDA. There are *far* too many managers. The company has grown massively in the last 5 years but it has disproportionately been middle management, many of whom are pretty awful and totally disconnected from the people they see as interchangeable cogs who they treat like idiots. Re: Diversity. It's pretty exclusively white men. They do sponsor some women in tech events but that hasn't changed the hiring mix. Tech. It's all Windows except some of the very new stuff which has just started moving to Linux/k8s, but everything desktop/laptop is 100% locked down Windows. I guess you decide if that's a con.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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