The metric before anything else - Client Partner Gartner Employee Review

2.0
26 Sept 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent place to start or build on your career if you're looking for experience or exposure to a wide range of businesses. Great internal resources for career growth.

Cons

There was a mantra of "the mission before the metric" but that saying has been completely hollow for the past 6 months. Metric squeezes are consistent and 10+ hour work days are normal to keep in line. The greatest criticism is Gartner does not practice what it preaches. Even taking research to management to suggest better ways of working or thinking is slapped down as the metric comes first, not the client. The lack of work life balance hurts. Flagging it with leadership is dismissed quickly. Talking upstream doesn't work. National R U Ok day passed the other day and too many people, myself included are not Ok. You're a number, not a person.

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5.0
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Pros

Great ownership culture - if you want to innovate they will give you the reins

Cons

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2.0
28 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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