GAIN Capital Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

good work life balance, interesting technologies to work on, can work from home

Cons

can't think of any, it's the best place I've worked

Pros

Flexibility to work the project you want Good work/life balance

Cons

Team -Horrible team members, they always trying to flatter the manager, pretending they are working but actually shopping, gossiping, blaming on each other when anything happened, and backstabbing each other -Resistant to changes -The old City staff are so bureaucracy and their qualifications are not good enough for the job requirements Culture -No culture and company core values since the acquisition -The company definitely did not care their clients and trying to blame on the clients for their money loss -They will treat you like trash when they want to dismiss you

Pros

Work life balance can be good. Direct team leads and line managers are good at their jobs and appreciate work done for them.

Cons

I have worked at GC for a long time now and one thing that has never changed is the disgusting way that Senior management treat their staff. One particular (Without mentioning names) has free reign to Bully, intimidate, use threats of firing (Scare tactics), Abuse absolutely everyone behind their back and has direct access to all staff members. Due to this they force workload onto people without any regards for triage and some of the work they force upon them has unreasonable deadlines, is poorly managed and only half of the information is passed on. Already set up for a fall before you begin and then when it goes wrong the entirety of the blame fulls on the unfortunate person who was given the task rather than with the person who poorly handed it down. You are then rewarded by more abuse, shouting and swearing usually with an audience to better their effect ! Whilst this goes on, all other senior management will just turn a blind eye to it (Even those senior to them) and for this reason I think they are just as bad. Due to this person, I (As well as anyone else I have spoken to about this) truly believes that they are the main reason why GC has not progressed and why it will continue to fail in the future. Team Leads and management are treated like PA's to senior management. Constantly nagged and micro managed - I always feel sorry for them. Salary increases rarely happen, bonuses could be better.

Pros

Company has plenty of projects to keep staff busy - If you are the type to want to dive in and add your value, this is the place for you. People are friendly/fun to work with - Salary and benefits are good - work/life balance is good - some opportunity to work remote in some positions if you've proven you can get your job done on time/to requirement - Good work/workers are appreciated - Intern program is also a positive to help young people grow in career experience - Some fun activities are planned throughout the year for staff such as Christmas party and summer BBQ - Decent PTO # days is offered

Cons

Basic holiday schedule - If you are not motivated to work you may not like it here - Friendly/positive people looking to make an impact do well here

Pros

Your work life balance is respected and you are expected to work hard and rest well.

Cons

Personal growth is encourage but competition for lateral movement is tough