Snakepit - Account Person Gartner Employee Review

1.0
12 Aug 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

So many great people intelligent people attracted to a brand that promotes itself as an employer of choice. People are generally great but drowning.

Cons

There is so much about this company that is manufactured. People are encouraged to put on good reviews. It has a huge turnover rate. The leadership is absolutely appalling. It's run by human robots that only care about numbers. If a family member is sick, or worse, and you don’t meet numbers, goodbye. Targets seem reasonable until you realise half of your territory will not renew and you have to replace this every year, and it’s all about your territory. Hard work and late nights will not fix this. Delivery is average at best as Gartner tries to automate everything. They spy on you through the tools you use. They say high performance means 130% to ridiculous targets. It’s not high performance, it's a big stick. They target younger people and hammer them into practices that border on abuse. An AE for example has has to over deliver, fix service issues, collect outstanding invoices, create huge amounts of PowerPoints and be subjected to incompetent managers that haven't sold anything in years but pretend to be coaches. The goal is to get a VP role and then you are apparently untouchable. But there are none of these jobs unless you are in the club. Your diary will be filled with internal meetings to justify these managers existence, so you won’t have time to succeed. Burnout is extremely high here and HR are completely useless, focussed on entry and exit of countless people to serve their masters. So many people have alcohol and drug problems from working here. This place is only for snakes who thrive on doing anything at any cost to get recognised by people who don’t care about how you get the numbers, only that you do, so they get their reward. They promote work life balance as if its an amazing new thing they have created,! But you do not get this as the work load is far too high.. I have softened this review.

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