Middle Management Minefield - way too political - Account Executive Gartner Employee Review

3.0
Jul 25, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Some incredibly smart people, research is genuinely useful to Clients, really interesting discussions with C Suite, decent pay

Cons

Metrics that mean nothing to the actual business you're delivering Culture of "misrepresenting" things to skew metrics, even though we all know it's wrong Very political - esp middle management. Trust no-one, they'll screw you over. Culture - in the UK at least - of managing people out, despite their sales numbers / recognition. Get most of your SA's on multi year agreements, and you've put yourself on the radar as Gartner is guaranteed that business whoever is in role. Right now I'm aware of 4 colleagues managed out under ridiculous metrics designed to make them fail, and others where they've been offered the "opportunity" to sign resignation letters dated 2 months ahead. Too many silos to really win business, lots of missed opportunities No collaboration between BU's at all, quite the opposite Arrogance over the Gartner reputation Bullying - and I use that word very specifically - by Managers

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