Can be a great place to work, but also frustrating - Area Vice President Gartner Employee Review

3.0
12 Oct 2023
Recommend
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Pros

I was at Gartner for over 10 years. I left as a VP of Sales after working my way up from the bottom. Gartner has great brand awareness--it is the best of the best in their industry.

Cons

Unfortunately, as the company has grown, internally the company is rife with the traditional, "the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing". Research and advisory teams are in no way aligned with sales, HR is aligned with nobody, product is non existent--legal is spent putting out fires all over the place. For a company that has one of their biggest lines of business advising CHRO's, I've never seen a more dysfunctional HR department--I think they're highly under resourced. I'm proud to have worked there, but standards slipped mightily during the pandemic and there is a lot of dead weight. But because the aforementioned HR issues, expect to pick up a lot of your coworkers jobs--because they make it impossible to terminate somebody for performance.

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5.0
28 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance, though in late 2026 will be required to go back to office. Full autonomy for your own schedule.

Cons

Absolutely no path for growth.

4.0
14 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Being a globally recognized company makes it easy to consistently engage clients. Great benefits. Amazing people (managers and colleagues) For the most part there is a clear path to success and promotions. Executives listen to feedback after every internal call to help guide strategy.

Cons

In office mandate increasing in office days from once a month to once a week. Need to live in Florida or Texas because of the in office mandate. Promotions take a while since there are many people going for the same roles. Hard to reach clients and constant territory’s shifting makes it difficult to achieve the numbers you and management expect.

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