High turnover, Micromanagement and Bad Work/Life Balance - Anonymous employee Gartner Employee Review

3.0
May 13, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home full time with option to go to the office if you want Good benefits and PTO Met some really great people working here

Cons

There's really no exaggeration with the topic of high turnover at this company because it is completely accurate. People leaving different departments has been consistent. The level of micromanagement here is ridiculous, and I wouldn't recommend it if you have a lot of external experience and truly want to grow. I think Gartner is a fine place to start your career, but not continue in it further down the road. Processes internally are outdated and the conversations of accepting "new ideas and perspectives" etc are false as things won't get approved or followed through because "that's just not how we do it here." Work/Life balance is not healthy and if you express concern, you just appear to be as "not being able to handle the culture." People who have been at the company for a bit have gotten used to it and accept it as is, yet if you are coming from a different company then you know what a proper work/life balance should be like. Actual collaboration is very rare as teams don't work together and you have others overstepping in roles, with no support or boundaries. The company has potential to do better but it seems like a very long way to go.

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