Pros
Smart and helpful colleagues. The Gartner name on resume gets you respect from some people. Ability to interact at the C-level and build executive presence skills. World class training. A good life when you have a good leadership team but it truly is luck of the draw and changes annually.
Kontras
There is a toxic environment and it is growing. You know it’s serious when even the current top individual contributors and their managers are miserable. Everyone is interviewing elsewhere and trying to get out. If you’re considering joining Gartner now you should realize you’re playing with fire and it’s just a matter of time before you get burned. You are just a temporary fix to their very big problem. The factors that contribute are leadership harassment, verbal and mental beat downs on a regular basis regardless if you’re performing or not b/c it’s never good enough, metrics over mission, growth at all costs, sell the dream today and make it someone else’s problem tomorrow, no respect for time off or not working nights or weekends, etc. I’ve never seen so many people leave a region at one time and I’m confused why Gene hasn’t figured out the bad eggs yet. I’ve been told they are putting people on PIPs then HR is forcing people to resign it’s like HR has a metric for how many people they got to resign this month. Also they’re not doing exit interviews anymore so that tells you something. Also don’t be fooled by the fake reviews. You know the ones with 1 con, many pros and have 5 stars posted daily after a bunch of negative reviews.