Revenue at all costs - Senior Account Executive Gartner Employee Review

2.0
Nov 5, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

I love the people I work with, most of whom are holdovers from CEB and the merger in 2017. Our offices are nice and the benefits aren't bad. Good PTO

Cons

Gartner prioritizes revenue at all costs. They pay new employees with significantly less experience more, while expecting more tenured employees receiving lower while being responsible for, quite literally, 2-4x the work/revenue. I get the feeling at every turn that employees are expendable- lots of shadiness around commissions and bonuses, with you having to fight every step of the way to get money promised and owed. Management has no interested in career development or promotion and is only looking out for themselves and Gartner shareholders. Treated like children, requiring 30+ year olds with families to be in early/stay late/in the day after Christmas for arbitrary reasons. If you feel you have to force employees to be in early/late/over time they should be with their family in order to get the job done, perhaps you should invest in hiring better employees who are self starters.

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Cons

While Gartner is continuing to grow, the pace of growth has temporarily slowed in recent years due to macro-economic factors and the misperception that AI is positioned to replace the business & technology insights that Gartner provides to its clients. It's been great to see the actions being taken this year to combat this perception and further invest in AI solutions internally to empower the organization.

2.0
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- Great health benefits and salary - A few great colleagues - Talk a lot about inclusion but this has slowly been falling to the wayside - I have been struggling the write this for some time as I wish there were more positive things to say

Cons

- Leadership that does not see anyone or anything but themselves - The company has been imploding for a while lying to the public and the street - Killing off the research model has been the final decision that has made many decide to look elsewhere (including me) - Lay off after lay off has created a culture of fear

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