Forrester reviews

This has become a company with too much politics, too many cooks in the kitchen trying to come up with an over-arching strategy, and not enough smart doers rolling their sleeves up and doing excellent intelligent work. Too much measurement and predicting of performance, and not enough performing. Management is cliquish, opaque and downright disrespectful at times. As an analyst, a frontline employee interacting with clients every day, I feel that I'm underpaid and undervalued.

Once you're in at a certain level it's almost impossible to get more than 3% more per year. So make sure you like your starting salary. It can be full of politics. They can decide they don't want to promote you for baseless reasons. I would caution anyone that while you can work here for a year before you switch roles/are allowed to apply internally for other things, that your boss will have a large role in determining your ability to switch jobs and when you come in to Forrester, be sure you're in a position that allows for upward mobility. Also the whole work/life balance thing can be a bit wonky - Q4 is insane for sales and consulting alike. You can work from home when you want, however you will be working 8:00am-9:00pm some days because there is just such a volume of work. Also, unrelated, the move to Alewife from Kendall is stupid and a complete deterrent to people wanting to apply here.