Great company to work for - Anonymous employee Gartner Employee Review

5.0
6 Jul 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people at Gartner are very clever, interesting and mostly fun. The high achievement culture means that retaining and attracting the best is a given.

Cons

Most promotions are internal , which means that middle management is not always best in class. There is no place for failure here and memories can be short.

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Good benefits and work from home schedule

Cons

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