G-Research Reviews

Pros

Positive working atmosphere - people help each other out, no prima donnas
Smart colleagues - the standard overall is by some way the best I've ever had in a workplace. it's a great place to learn
Sensible work/life balance - the emphasis is on sustainable work, no-one is expecting any death marches
I find the day-to-day work interesting and challenging - we are trying to get and stay ahead of others in our sector, so things don't stay still for long
Great location
It's growing, so there are opportunities for those who might want to end up managing others
Solid business model - I think the company is very well placed for the short/medium term (which is as far ahead as I care to predict)
Decent pay
Reasonable selection of soft drinks, although I am still not sure whether Diet Lilt should have made the cut

Advice to Management

If I do personally drift away from G-Research, it will most likely be because of a lack of flexibility in working patterns, whether it's not allowing home working or everyone having to work 5 full days every week.. As the workforce ages (and so more of them have kids), this will become a more general problem in G-Research. Don't let this creep up on you!

Pros

- Incredible compensation.
- Everyone here are really smart.
- People get their responsibilities right. You literally never have to spend time fixing other people's stuff. You will almost never feel like you could do it better, no matter how smart you are. I've never seen any other workplace in the IT industry where this was true, and I've had a few jobs before this.
- Very relaxed work environment. The work hours are great. No unneccesary pressure for management / clients.
- Well equiped office, free soft driks and fruits.
- Friendly, soical, trusting company culture, lots of great events.
- Great tech solutions for most of the problems. Quite nice attitude about the stuff that could be better, and very hard drive to improve them.
- Literally everything about the company makes you feel highly valued, and that you are important here.
- A lot of opportunities to learn from others. No matter how smart you are or what your background is, you will feel intellectually stimulated.
- Very fast release cycles compared to industry average.
- Great management. They really know what they are doing, make great decisions on average, have an really nice attitude about the leadership, they are great at involving the team and handling responsibilities well.

Pros

Some very smart people to work with
Good pay and benefits

Mixed blessings:
Rules limit hours in the office so engineers generally have to leave before 8pm
Lack of email outside of the office means getting urgent emails that disrupt your holiday is not an issue

Advice to Management

Make empowering the people beneath you a priority and listen to them when they advise that your decisions are getting in the way of their work

Pros

Good code base. Company is investing a lot in tech.
Excellent work life balance.

Pros

Good tech, variety of work. Social company

Pros

Good company to work for, excellent benefits and opportunity to explore new ideas

Pros

Young, fast growing tech company.

Pros

G-Research hires really good people and the office environment is quite nice.
The company is supporting the effort of modernising the large legacy codebase they own.

Advice to Management

Try to put paranoia aside and rethink the relationships between the different groups. Failing to do this you're just hiring very good talent and waste most of it.

Pros

Very smart colleagues.
New technologies.
Plenty of resources available for investment in anything that's needed - i.e. more computers for the cluster.
Good pay.

Advice to Management

Relax the security procedures and allow working from home for most jobs.
Most jobs don't have access to the really sensitive data / code.

Pros

- Really interesting projects to work on
- Senior staff listen to your ideas
- Lots of great social events
- Very competitive salary and bonus