Gartner reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(9,378 total reviews)
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77% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Gartner has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 9,378 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
May 15, 2018

Sales

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Pros

The opportunity to work with smart analysts. Everyone I've met seemed to be very nice.

Cons

I would recommend anyone taking a job in sales to absolutely go in with their eyes wide open. As many reviews have stated, if you have any experience working in technology sales or for another sales-oriented company, this will absolutely NOT be the right fit for you. Take a look at the folks on the team and the management - many have never worked in another sales role and many have zero experience outside of Gartner. The training, their "motivational" emails, the stack ranking emails for experienced salespeople, the company wide, monitored call campaigns, feel more like an organized cult versus an environment where they value experience. Be prepared for micromanagement and having numerous people on a call to review the same deals every month over the same action items. There is no other sales company where their VP levels have the time to spend on activities that are normally delegated down, if even performed at all. Their company-wide use of terms like "no limits mindset" make you feel like you're in a self-help group. I used to think I was the only person feeling like I did - but it is not an isolated feeling. Out of my new hire class alone, we had several quit after a few months for the same reasons I stated above and many who complain about the robotic nature selling for the company. I realize my review may be negative but it seems like the positive reviews are all from analysts and people early-on in their sales career where they may not have a lot of experience. Half the time I wonder if the reviews written are even true. If I had had more feedback and reviews with a bit more color, it would have helped me a lot in making a decision to think twice on whether or not to take the original offer. I would recommend trying to find someone who's perhaps been with the company for a while but has recently left, and ask for their opinion.

1.0
Nov 10, 2017
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Pros

Good company to learn from for recent college grad or a salesperson with 0-3 years relevant experience.

Cons

- No consistency in territory planning. AE's are stack ranked as if they have the same type of territory which is very untrue. This drastically affects the compensation, morale, and promotion track for those who are working hard in a difficult territory of one-year deals that were sold a intangible dream that Gartner could never help them to achieve, whereas those in a territory filled with multi-year deals, are seen as "top performers" although they had nothing to do with their own "success" and often have no true skill. - Area Managers are often those who were "top performers", but lack true management skills, real life business and sales experience, and often-times even common sense. - End of Quarter work life balance - this channel expects sales people to stay until mid-night on quarter closes with no additional compensation and no regard to family or personal obligations.

3.0
Oct 23, 2017

Management by spreadsheet

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Pros

Defined playbook, lots of middle management to work with, good place if you want to be told specifically how to do your job and enjoy micromanagement

Cons

Does not respect new ideas or out of the box thinkers, middle managers are not leaders but box checkers, does not put client first

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