Absolute living nightmare - Account Executive Gartner Employee Review

1.0
Oct 12, 2021
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Pros

Easy interview process; high base to target ratio as compared to other sales roles in IT

Cons

Culture is absolute poison; leaders are clueless and sometimes actively unstable (I personally witnessed two separate managers screaming at employees in the middle of the office on a regular basis.) Once you’ve already signed paperwork and relocated to the office for a job, they enroll you in a 6 week “training” program where they fire about 20% of each class. (Maybe fix the recruiting process instead of wasting everyone’s time and money this way?????) I truly cannot overemphasize just how bad the culture is. I understand that sales roles tend to have high turnover, but this is something else. Half of my training class was gone by our one year anniversary. I would recommend this job only as a transition role out of sales (it’s like a sales/customer success hybrid role, and recruiters love seeing Gartner on a resume) OR for a new grad with no other options (because you could start interviewing at your 1 year mark and find a better job.)

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