Pros
-Great perks- car details onsite, free food end of quarter, we used to have complimentary valet -Very work hard play hard -Winner Circle is a great experience if you can hit it -Very reputable company that sets you up for career -Training is some of the best you’ll find -Products, while very expensive, genuinely can help the client when you know how to properly align resources to them
Cons
Where do I begin? They promote people into management before they are ready since the culture is 2 years until either promotion or you leave. This causes there to be awful and clueless management and VPs. Some aren’t bad, but if you’re unlucky enough to get aligned to one of the bad ones, it’s awful. Management and VPs don’t actually care about you or your success. You’re purely a number here. There once was a bench of about 100 college grads waiting to replace you. If you don’t perform, you’re out. Even if you perform, you’re jobs never safe. People hit winners circle and still get let go for performance. Because you’re just a number and there’s that 2 year culture I mentioned before, turnover is EXTREMELY HIGH. You’re not even guaranteed to make it through training after they relocate you. Many people don’t last a year. Even fewer make it two full years. They force you into either the management track or BD track, but don’t often support you when you want to make a horizontal move. You have to resign your current role before even applying elsewhere in the company. There are so many sales people the territories keep shrinking and you often get completely useless states. Teams fight over prospects. You’re also forced to sell sell sell and it makes building a relationship with the client somewhat difficult. Clients often tell you to stop trying to sell them off cycle because it annoys them so much. Gartner is VERY cliquey. You live, eat, work, and play with Gartner people, so everyone knows everyone, for better or for worse. Also, Gartner often acts as a dating service, as many of those who work there end up dating or getting married to coworkers. Why did I leave? Management. I was bullied and harassed by those I reported directly to and HR was their buddy, so I had no one to turn to. People on my team couldn’t be trusted to not spill things directly back to management either. I was once very happy at Gartner. I loved my job, many of the people I worked with, and overall it is a great company. But sometimes you’re dealt a bad territory, a bad manager, and a bad VP, and it sets you up for a lot of stress and a lot of failure.