Toxic culture - stay away!!! - Anonymous employee Gartner Employee Review

1.0
25 Mar 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work/life balance, smart people, exposure to some high level execs from top technology companies

Cons

Toxic culture, backstabbing, disregard for new ideas, a lot of pep talk that does not translate into anything. Very fake. The only way up is to cozy up to some GVP, trash your co-workers and pretend to care about whatever flavor of the day initiative they are pushing. This also means you are going down once that is over. Management is very seasoned, too old for new tech world that changes very fast. Decisions take weeks and months. GVP leaders are with Gartner for over 20 years, have no clue how the real world works anymore. Quality of research is declining. Clients are starting to see that. After CEB acquisition, company is growing fast and old leadership cannot keep up. They still act as if this is a mom and pop shop they came from.

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Pros

- Great health benefits and salary - A few great colleagues - Talk a lot about inclusion but this has slowly been falling to the wayside - I have been struggling the write this for some time as I wish there were more positive things to say

Cons

- Leadership that does not see anyone or anything but themselves - The company has been imploding for a while lying to the public and the street - Killing off the research model has been the final decision that has made many decide to look elsewhere (including me) - Lay off after lay off has created a culture of fear

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