Gartner reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(9,351 total reviews)
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Gene Hall

77% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Gartner has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 9,351 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Gartner employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Sep 20, 2021
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Pros

looks great as a starting job, C-level client experiences, overcoming challenges, and PTO

Cons

- Lack of diversity (Fort Myers and Dallas offices have no diversity besides White, cis-males) Recruiting hyper-focuses on predominantly white universities - Transparency is a joke. Gartner believes their transparency is a top value but does not deliver by keeping employees in the dark or when seeking areas of improvement not taking responsibility and blaming employees - Development and training is always an on-going sore-spot. Gartner hires outside of sales experience as they preach "anyone" can "do the right things" and achieve quota. BUT, they have dedicated less resources now from a 12+ week program to 2 weeks -- even though new hires still were unclear on Gartner service delivery and sales training. Due to this, turnover has gotten out of hand. New hires in BD have all but left due to management faults & AEs closely behind due to Gartner's lack of support early on. If you didn't get lucky in a good team, manager, and territory you are blamed for not being accountable or having a growth mindset. - Work-life balance is preached as a top value but also not delivered upon, if you are not meeting quota then you are expected to put in longer hours to achieve management's numbers. if you have personal issues to resolve and ask for time, managers will agree to seem understanding but use it on you once End of Quarter hits. - Culture... this is Gartner's main selling point however due to remote working there is no longer any culture. It is very sales and numbers focused, low outside team collaboration

1.0
Feb 5, 2021

Sinking Ship

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Pros

Very talented subject matter experts. Good first job for someone just out of college looking for a reputable way to learn IT sales.

Cons

Micromanagement hell. If you like making PowerPoint presentations, this is the company for you - just know that your customer can't stand them. Very robotic process with little room for deviation. The process historically has worked but customers resent the forced cadence and constant upselling you're required to do. It's sales so you're expected to perform and attain metrics but every move is orchestrated and prospects/customers can see through your motivation of hitting your number. You'll also spend most of your time attending internal meetings when you should be working with customers and prospects to help them achieve their goals. Very middle-management heavy. If you're a seasoned, successful rep don't bother. They'll do everything to de-program you and make you conform to their process and if you don't you'll be branded as not having a "growth mindset". The service is a "nice to have" and not a "need to have" - and even more so because of the pandemic.

1.0
Nov 12, 2020
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Pros

Tons of flexibility and great work life balance Decent benefits like charity match

Cons

They literally could not care less about their employees despite telling us they do at every single town hall and team meeting. Upper management is extremely misleading, and lower down team managers aren't given enough information or resources to do anything for their reports despite wanting to. Because of this, career progression is essentially impossible - it is very unclear what you need to do to progress even if you excel in performance reviews. Upper management also does essentially everything they can to be opaque about what is actually going on within the organization, and instead only reports the positives and that everything is fine. Compensation is decent, but would not say its competitive compared to similar roles at other companies.

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