G-Research

Free coffee and soft drinks are provided.

Some of the technology used is the latest.

Desks that go up and down are available.

Security overload without a consistent policy across the company, this leaves some teams scrutinised to an extreme degree and other teams left to create direct connections to the internet. This is both weird and slack.

Far too many middle management creating pointless meetings and adding no value.

Never worked for a company before with managers who only have two direct reports. This seems to be considered normal at G-Research.

Having bizarre targets, the current target is that G-Research is number 1 in the world at doing something, but nobody in the company knows what that something is, just that it is to be number 1.

Too many managers doing nothing, follow the more standard 10-1 manager to employee ratio.

Lose at least one, or maybe two, layers of management. The number of management layers in G-Research is far too many for a large company and G-Research is a small company.