Gartner Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Gartner full-time for more than a year

Pros – Growing consulting group with lots of opportunities
Consulting + Research a real differentiator in the marketplace
Top talent at the upeer and lower levels
Good pay and benefits
Great brand

Cons – The consulting 'pyramid' is a bit top-heavy right now, but being addressed
Under-penetrated in some key accounts, need to right this and get in where the business is!

Advice to Senior Management – Keep investing in consulting, it is an asset that has significant growth potential

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Gartner full-time for more than a year

Pros – Very good all around company to sales people. Fair comp plan. The company culture is the best I have worked for.

Cons – Difficult and challenging work and it takes a good year to get the hang of it.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Gartner full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great culture and opportunities for advancement

Cons – Growth is limited if you are not able to move or relocate

Advice to Senior Management – Hold on to your talent

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Gartner full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – There are many intelligent individuals across the company divisions. The work can be intellectually challenging and also very rewarding. Most managers have their direct reports' success as an imperative.

Cons – There is a certain level of political gamesmanship at the middle management levels that is to be expected, but this can be frustrating to the front lines. Internal collaboration is an area that perpetually needs improvement.

Advice to Senior Management – Give your employees your trust fully and most will thrive. Stifle them with inconsistent administrative policies and you are setting them on a journey on the road to failure.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Gartner full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Gartner's a rapidly growing company, and managed to performance numbers that increasingly tie to business value. This means that benefits and compensation are good, but there's a lot of change to adapt to. Co-workers are generally smart and cooperative (of course, there are always exceptions). The global nature of the business means that work can be very flexible.

Cons – As with any company tuned to growth, there can be long hours. And the focus on business growth - read metrics - can feel stifling.

Advice to Senior Management – keep the growth up.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Gartner full-time for more than a year

Pros – -lots of time off
-beautiful location
-growing very quickly

Cons – -mediocre pay
-low career opportunity

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Gartner full-time for more than a year

Pros – Compensation, hours, winners circle destinations and recognition programs

Cons – Your enjoyment of this role is strongly contingent on the territory and manager you are assigned. Some managers are excellent resources who will help you develop your skills and meet your financial and career goals. Some are selfish, political hacks who only make things more difficult. Then again if you just keep your head down and bust your hump you can make a ton of money. Plus, there is enough turnover at the higher levels that a strong sales record is all you need to advance (some sooner than later).

Advice to Senior Management – Managers that help reps develop their skills, understand the products and industry, and build out realistic plans for a territory will help cut down on the extremely high turnover. Managers that spend all their time in their cubes modifying their target comp spreadsheet and poring over call stats are useless.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Gartner full-time for more than a year

Pros – There are opportunities for growth an success in a growing company. Gartner is a prestigious brand and well regarded in the industry. When recommending this employer to friends I have referred them to roles outside the client partner group.

Cons – Client Partner group is very disconnected from the rest of Gartner. There are VERY limited opportunities for professional growth and financial success in this business unit. It is very "cloak and dagger", ripe with favoritism and lower management is not empowered so that they can do right by their employees. The "metrics" always come before the client and client partners are often encouraged to do things that are counter productive to the outside account executive's goal for growth of accounts.

Advice to Senior Management – Please stop recruiting people who have previous work experience, the best employees for you are college kids, with no families and willing to take very little pay for 60 plus hours per week.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Gartner full-time for more than a year

Pros – Market footprint, interesting engagements and clients

Cons – High turnover, high and multiple personal quotas which if missed will result in termination regardless of prior contributions or tenure. Highly political, virtually no collaboration or sharing of IP as it is an "every man for himself" atmosphere.

Advice to Senior Management – Either position the consulting practice as a long term asset with strong growth potential and make the corresponding investment in the employees and collaboration efforts or sell the franchise. In consulting the only assets are the people, and they will not stay in an exploitive environment.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Gartner full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great earning potential. If you do well there is opportunity to move up fast in the company.

Cons – Can be challenging depending on your territory or assigned accounts.

Advice to Senior Management – I would suggest they perform more analysis of what factors are affecting success and make needed changes, such as how many accounts, what size of accounts, industries, territory. There needs to be more balance.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company