Gartner reviews

The culture is falling apart in SMB. It's basically a frat house. Everyone is straight out of college. New Account Managers are hired en mass and pushed through huge training classes to keep up with the turnover. Management has the attitude that everyone is replaceable, so if you're not doing well, expect to be put on plan and pushed out, instead of coached. The market for SMB is not growing as fast as they will tell you. The value prop is VERY weak for tech vendors, despite what they'll tell you. Territories are shrinking, and quotas are rising. Worst of all, it's in Fort Myers, FL. God's waiting room. If you're under 65, you will be incredibly bored in this area within a few months.

People think of Gartner as a technology company and probably envision and dream of a company with a startup feel. Gartner; however, is more of a publishing company and all business. Gartner has a tremendous amount of multiple non-sense layers of leadership and corporate politics that you would see in any big company. They are very slow to adapt, change, and grow. There is absolutely ZERO and I mean ZERO path for growth. Gartner’s main goal is to keep you in the same role for as long as they can and work and get the most out of you while not giving you any more money. Which in their defense is what most public companies do who bow to the shareholders. I truly feel that Gartner’s mission is, “How can we give this person more, so they can take on and do more, but get paid the same or less.” The company USED to have an even better and livelier culture and work balance. However, recently the mission has been all about how can we get more and more out of our employees and squeeze even more productivity out of them. The best employees at Gartner who are younger will inevitable point in which they are crushing their numbers, goals, figures, and be thought of as a leader. They will be given more and more tasks and be seen as a leader. However, they will simply be tired of getting 2-3% raises every year and go to another job and get a big pay day. Compensation is very poor compared to other major companies out there. Some are OK because they trade it in for work life balance for the majority of others they leave and get a big time pay day.