Gartner Reviews

Pros

The company has a great reputation in the IT field. Everybody I worked with was highly professional and smart. In general it is a very collaborative environment that puts the success of a project over personal gains.

Cons

Once you get close to the senior management ranks your growth opportunities are limited. Many folks in senior management have been there for years, if not even decades which breeds a certain level mediocrity.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more innovative on how you keep your best folks. Growth is not always about promotion or money.

Pros

Executive management
Focus on improving products and services

Cons

Operational managers within research are functionaries, and don't really understand how to manage highly talented analysts
Upward and lateral mobility is severely constrained

Pros

- Access to IT Research
- Ability to work with Senior Executives of companies
- Independent work environment (telecommuting is normal)

Cons

- to understand how Gartner operates you have to basically brown nose the MPs
- to ensure you have a project to work on, you have to constantly search out what is coming up which means more brown nosing of the MPs
- getting to work on a project is more about who you have kissed up to the most vs what skills and knowledge you bring to the table
- performance evals are very subjective and normalzed so that only those that brown nose the most are awarded the full bonus payout
- compete against your coworkers all the time
- somewhat cliqueish environment
- rather high utilization rate - the rate is based upon 2080 hours a year meaning they don't believe you should take holidays - they believe that you can work on holidays and therefore you are penalized for taking them i.e., your utilization rate is decreased each holiday you take thus hurting your chances to earn your bonus

Advice to Senior Management

- Develop a better orientation/onboarding program so that new employees have more of a chance to assimiliate to the culture.
- Reduce the competitive culture between associates because according to all of the hype during the interviews, you only hire the BEST. Reducing the stress between associates would go a long way in developing business.
- Remove holidays from the utilization rate calculation as I don't know many people who state they want to work every day of the year.

Pros

One works with the smartest people in IT. The work evirovnment is self-directed and most anlayst work from home or occasinonlly in an office.

Cons

The work enviornment and respect for analysts is gradually declining. They employ a stack rankding method to judge analyst work- ok for factory workers but not knowldge workers.

Advice to Senior Management

Remember that the analysts are the true intellectual property and they need to rewarded for the growht of reserach revenue.

Pros

Intellectual rigour and freedom encouraged.

Cons

Administrative obstacles continue to be a challenge.

Advice to Senior Management

Make it easier for employees to do the job as expected.

Pros

- They practice what they preach
- Very collegial atmosphere
- Very good, accessible management team and flat structure
- Pay and benefits very competitive

Cons

- Culture is a bit too office-centric, and East Coast focused

Pros

- Opportunity to get deep knowledge of IT industry
- Good commissions
- Opportunity to relate with the smartest people on Earth in IT (Analysts)
- Multicultural environment
- Brand
- No excuses no limits mindset

Cons

- Low basic salary
- Weak middle management
- Difficult (but not rare) to change career path with the company

Advice to Senior Management

Gartner is a great company to work for, but it can be better by making AEs succeed in their growth path

Pros

- Extremely supportive environment from all levels
- The professional and senior level amongst all employees
- Core product, to objectively support technology related decision, is fun, versatile, strong, competitive and inspiring.
- Customer Centric
- Development & Education (in particular for management)
- Flat organisation
- Uncapped Commission & reward travel
- Great differentiation

Cons

- training for sales people could be prolonged/once a year
- salary compared to similar companies
- Should enable better collaboration amongst global sales teams

Pros

Great co. to work for, great opportunity to change roles and learn new responsibilities.

Comp is good (very easy to make 150K) and plenty of resources for support.

Cons

Depending on your role, travel can be a bit much....like 50%.

Advice to Senior Management

Be as up front as possible when describing travel requirements. I was told it would be 3-5 trips a year and it turned out to be 50%.

Pros

Flexible days off, Meritocratic, Possibility of career development, Benefits, Own time management - flexible work time, No entry badge, Not dangerous competition

Cons

internal staff recognition missing (not only those who have drive the numeric results). If you want something to reach out/receive as a "recognition" some you need to ask for it .

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more attention also to intarnal staff (no sales/consulting/BA) as far as internal staff recognition is most of the time missing.