Gartner Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"It’s a great place to work with great people"

"The work during my internship was interesting and I got to learn a lot because I worked on NLP."

"Gartner as a company is amazing. Great brand and an industry leader. The culture in the workplace is nepotistic and is impossible to succeed unless you are a relative or a friend of management team. Unfortunately, the company will succeed despite the people who work there. That is just a testament to how strong the brand is."

"Great company. I would recommend it."

"Gartner is an exceptional brand and fortunately will continue to thrive despite the people managing the company. The nepotistic environment makes it very difficult to succeed and advance in the company. Everyone in the sales environment is related, or has personal relationships with directors. Employees are managed out, if they need to create a position for a family or friend. Senior management ignores these deficiencies and just concerns themselves with driving stockholder initiatives."

"I worked for the company for about 8 months as a contractor for the UX and UI section of the company. They have a great staff and help out as much as they can with any problem that you may face."

"I wouldn't suggest working for Gartner unless you absolutely need to."

"Working at Gartner, Inc. was a very disappointing experience."

What do you like about working at Gartner?

"They had a gym and a great cafe. There was plenty of PTO but I often found myself having to work on vacation. There health benefits are mediocre. Gartner is a great name to have on my resume so it served its purpose."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't bother interviewing for the Client Partner role if you have help any other professional positions in the past. This is a position best suited for someone right out of college or for someone who is not the bread-winner in the household."

What don't you like about working at Gartner?

"Very paternalistic culture. A lot of members in the Client Partner group in Fort Myers cheat to meet the outrageous metrics. Management cannot be trusted - they take credit for your success and throw you under the bus for failures. It is VERY difficult to make money in the Client Partner Group (DO NOT believe what the recruiters in Fort Myers tell you) and it can be 22 months before you are eligible to be promoted from an Associated Client Partner to a Client Partner. There is VERY limited room for growth in Fort Myers and a very high rate of turnover. Local business owners outside of Gartner have expressed to me that they think twice before hiring former Gartner employees because of the back-stabbing culture that is predominant in the Fort Myers location."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Weed out the bad Area VPs and Area Managers. Do an in-depth analysis of why there is a high rate of turnover in such a prestigious company. If you are only hiring the best, then how can there be such a high rate of turnover It also may be a good idea to ask HR not to fraternize with management - this clearly creates a conflict of interest. Another suggestion may be to create some type of consistency within the policies. In other words, favoritism is a problem here."

What do you like about working at Gartner?

"Exposure to a variety of organizations and exposure to all the key trends and key initiatives . I loved working with the clients more than working for Gartner. The quality of the analysts was overall, good, however because of their rapid growth, the quality went down."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you are young and inexperienced in high-tech, this is an excellent place for you to cut your teeth. The knowledge you can acquire is vast. However, if you are highly skilled, creative, and have had a lot of experience in technology, stay away. Gartner has a playbook, a methodology, and a process for everything. Innovation is suppressed. Inexperienced managers are prevalent and rewarded."

What don't you like about working at Gartner?

"Micromanaged organization for people that are unskilled and inexperienced. If you are intelligent and have brains, then run away quickly. If you are good at following orders and like a cult environment, then you would be perfect at Gartner."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make key investments and acquisitions to expand the portfolio. Hire good talent from the technology industry instead of hiring people from the services industry that don't know or care about technology. Most of the sales people at Gartner are clueless about technology. Hire qualified sales executives that see employees as investments rather than a body. Attrition rate is high at Gartner. They tend to chew employees and spit them out."

What do you like about working at Gartner?

"I truly enjoyed the interaction with senior leadership within my accounts. You can learn a great deal about the direction of a company and align with their objectives if you have a view from the top floor. The nature of my role allowed me to get a glimpse into the strategic direction of a given organization and, by utilizing this knowledge, become a more effective sales professional."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Ask very deep questions related to your potential territory and your role managing existing clients. Look for a territory with fewer active clients to allow yourself to spend more time selling and less time apologizing. Get your potential manager's perspective on management style as the organization is notoriously bureaucratic and is heavily fixated upon burdensome but unproductive metrics."

What don't you like about working at Gartner?

"I did not care for the overall attitude of the organization. More specifically, I was uncomfortable with a sales environment that pressured employees to sell services which we would likely not be able (or more likely not be willing) to fulfill. I would prefer an environment in which I can confidently and defensibly speak to my solution's benefits."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take much better care of your customers. They are interested in the value that you deliver, not the credentials of your analysts. As a nonpartisan consultant, you must be able to answer the client's direct questions instead of reciting correlated-but-irrelevant responses based on canned information."

What do you like about working at Gartner?

"I loved the autonomy, the opportunity to work with internal customers and division leaders and the chance to help grow my area of the business through strategy, business development, team mentoring and leadership."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself. Some leaders and hiring managers are open to change and hiring from the outside to bring in new talent and ideas."

What don't you like about working at Gartner?

"Trying to always stay ahead of the curve in technology can be challenging. At the time, many companies were consolidated which made it tough to meet sales goals with fewer accounts remaining in the industry or space."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"When acquiring companies be sensitive to the disparate cultures. Management should not go around puffing themselves up as superior which demoralizing to acquired management."

"Working at Gartner was a positive experience,"

What do you like about working at Gartner?

"It is a sales centered company. It wants to do everything it can to sell."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Unless you direly want to sell research notes (subscriptions), stay far away from this company."

What don't you like about working at Gartner?

"Once you are characterized in one department (e.g. sales), you stay there."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management is very much out of touch with what the client expects from it."

What do you like about working at Gartner?

"I enjoyed working with existing clients to build lasting relationships with my clients and help them realize their growth opportunities."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure you are passionate about listening and helping clients grow their business"

What don't you like about working at Gartner?

"I did not enjoy living and working in Florida. We have since relocated to the bay area."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None. They are passionate and did a great job. They are also very in touch with employees and clients"

What do you like about working at Gartner?

"The people here are Gartner are great. The atmosphere of being able to come to anyone with any question is great."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"To dive in and to learn as much as you can, reach out to other departments to see if you can help out here and there."

What don't you like about working at Gartner?

"The work is very easy and doesn't challenge me as much as I would like it to."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would suggest that people in my role get more responsibilities."