Avantages
There are some very intelligent and hard working individuals at Guidepoint. Definitely an environment to build relationships and camaraderie. The culture is slowly changing as the HR team is throwing more events (company lunches, happy hours, etc.). Also, if you're lucky, you'll be favored by management and receive robust client accounts yielding a lot of commissions.
Inconvénients
The CEO is extremely awkward and WAY too involved with minute details that should be left to his management team. When frustrated and/or concerned, he can also be very unprofessional. Favoritism and politics play a huge role here. If you're not working hard to constantly impress management, you will be repeatedly overlooked. Ivy league graduates are lured here as they believe they will be doing "market research", when in reality they browse LinkedIn all day. As a result, there is high turnover here and most people stop putting forth their best efforts.