Gallup reviews

3.9

72% would recommend to a friend

(1,089 total reviews)
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Jon Clifton

75% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Gallup has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,089 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Gallup employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Sep 27, 2025
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Pros

Some of the very best colleagues I’ve worked with in my career.

Cons

For a company that profits from advising others on workforce and leadership, Gallup fails to follow its own advice. Since the arrival of the new CTO, large portions of the technology staff have been laid off without any transition plan, and entire department heads were forced to resign. To make matters worse, the same roles were reposted in San Francisco because the CTO openly disregards the talent in Omaha and the Midwest.. the very people who built the company into something worth his notice. Oh and get this, the CEO continues to preach culture, leadership, and employee engagement in public while showing little awareness or care for what is happening inside his own company. The silence from leadership after the layoffs speaks volumes. Morale has collapsed, and many of Gallup’s best people have already left or are planning to as soon as the job market allows. What remains is a culture of instability, arrogance, and hypocrisy. For a firm that claims to be an authority on engagement and organizational health, the disconnect between what Gallup sells and how it treats its own employees is glaring and deeply disheartening.

1.0
Jun 4, 2025
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Pros

Good colleagues. Strong historical reputation. Interesting projects if you’re on the right teams.

Cons

Since the leadership transition, Gallup seems to have lost its direction. The new CEO has been largely absent, and a new CTO was hired after months of quietly working behind the scenes without any communication to the broader team. After laying off over 100 employees, leadership still had the audacity to claim that there were "good vibes" in the office last month. I have no trust in this leadership. I go to the office and not only it is empty, but the people there are silent. It's disheartening to see some of my top performing colleagues let go, especially when a manager (still here) in charge to tell everyone that they were fired allowed behavior as unprofessional as smoking at a desk, but I guess it doesn't matter if you meet your deadlines. I do not recommend working there unless you are working on the new projects with the new teams. This new project based approach is starting to feel inhumane and robotic.

2.0
May 29, 2025

Not what I expected

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Pros

Great coworkers, interesting work and solid research.

Cons

The CEO is a coward who didn’t (or couldn’t?) lead with a modicum of humanity when they let go of 100+ employees. Weeks after the first round of layoffs, he still hasn’t addressed the employees who were left at the organization. Working well over 40 hours is glorified. Example: 2300+ client hours a year, not including on administrative work, is considered “excellent”. Assuming you want to take 2 weeks of vacation a year, and spend ~10 hours a week on non client things (internal meetings, trainings, financial management, org development projects, etc), you’re averaging about 56 hours a week. Add to that the time you spend thinking about work outside of work, casual chats with colleagues that don’t count towards hours, the commute 3 days a week—you give a lot of yourself to reach that level of “excellence”. The internal tech stack is archaic. Also, “innovation” at Gallup happens at a snails pace.

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