Good people, terrible management - Anonymous employee Gartner Employee Review

1.0
30 Nov 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits (pre-2020) Smart coworkers and good camaraderie among associates Decent product

Cons

Senior management and executive team is out of touch with people who actually do the work. An outsized focus on metrics and the bottom line rather than growing and developing people has decimated formerly strong teams as C-Suite chases growth by slashing benefits and 'reorganizing' (mass terminations). How things are determined are very opaque and there is a huge loss in confidence in management from associates. Middle management has little room to manuever and is merely the messenger of bad news. Feedback from teams does not seem to be heeded and as a result of all this, morale is very low and Gartner is now a very top/middle-heavy org with not enough people to do the actual work. Starting to see serious burnout as workload increases but no matching compensation increase and benefits are cut.

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