Okay place to get some experience, but don't stay too long - Anonymous employee Gartner Employee Review

2.0
Apr 9, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great team of colleagues: lots of bright, funny, hard-working people. Good benefits & generous PTO. Some flexibility if you're in marketing, and work from home can be negotiated with your manager. (There's much less flexibility if you're in sales.) The office is just off South Congress and close to fun stuff/cool stuff. You will get some experience promoting, writing, designing or advertising tech content for your resume. Perks such as free coffee, fridge stuffed with snacks, a guy comes to the office to do oil changes etc. Lots of parking.

Cons

Graphic designers beware! Software Advice chews them up and spits them out. Tenures are short and experience is a disadvantage. However if you like to obey orders rather than create things, then you'll be happy. Parent company Gartner still working out how to exploit its small business acquisitions more than two years after it started collecting them. Promises about career growth possibilities have no relationship with reality. Maybe they will one day, but not yet. Lots of rigid, redundant processes which do nothing for the quality of the content and negatively impact productivity. The marketing management team doesn't understand the audience for their content. Previously the strategy was to create obscure research on software topics nobody cares about. Currently it's to crank out as much stuff as possible and hope for the best. Simplistic approach to SEO. A narrow understanding of marketing. Stay too long and you will miss out on important things you should be learning, and you'll probably pick up some bad habits too.

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