Terrible HR! Beware of empty verbal employment offers and manipulative behavior.
Pros
Great building and location. Good mix of diverse employees. Some teams are better than others.
Cons
The HR representative I dealt with was absolutely terrible. I have never had to deal with a more manipulative person. The HR rep interviewed me first, and suggested I interview at the higher level given my industry experience. I interviewed for Senior Specialist, and all the rounds of interviews went really well. One of the VPs I met with interviewed me, and we got on well. However, he made several mistakes on categorizing fixed and variable costs during the interview, and I corrected him to bring clarity to the interview. He thanked me for it, and said this is the kind of people they want at Gartner. Then HR calls and says he recommended me for the lower position, because in his words "people who start lower at Gartner do better". What a bogus explanation, and what a convenient way to exploit employees who are overqualified for a job. When I got extended the offer, I tried to negotiate on the salary, which was miserably low, btw for the area (67K), and I mentioned that I have industry experience and should not be starting on the same level as someone out of college. The HR person had no idea that I had work experience, even though it was explicitly discussed with her during many interviews, and with the hiring team, and was on my resume. She represented me as someone out of college to the hiring team. No wonder they wanted to place me in the Specialist role! They thought I had no experience. After figuring out the miscommunication, the HR person said that they will talk to the manager. Gets back to me a week later, saying the management decided they would be OK with me working in the Senior role, at a higher salary, as long it is in the practice where i have experience. Great! I moved to the new city, as they said that they will contact me regarding teams and openings soon. (btw no relocation bonus, or singing bonus, or any kind of bonus, and pretty bad health benefits ). 2 months go by. I call them, they say there is only the Specialist opening (even though LinkedIn and their website shows recent postings for Senior Specialist roles). Then, the next week the HR person calls and says they will hire me, and start me out on a team of 7 analysts in the Senior position. All I had to do is have one last fit call with a VP, even though I already had a fit call. Great! I accepted the arrangement. They schedule the call with the VP. One week later, they call me and say the VP has declined my call because she talked to the guy who interviewed me first who made the decision based on misinformation about my background. Back to square one. I ask about the lower role that was available. Well, it was closed or "on hold", so was not an option anymore, and it was "unclear when and whether there will be openings soon, but we will reach out as soon as something comes up". I reach out to the VP and ask her to speak with me. She agrees (reluctantly). We have our call, I explain to her the situation, and she says she is uncomfortable discussing this issue with me, and that she thought we were going to have a fit call, so was not prepared to talk about my problem. She promised to do "some digging" and get back to me with answers THAT WEEK. The next few days I get called, and they say that the complexity of my case made the team decide not to hire me after all. So I suffered because the HR contact was incompetent, lied about talking to the management, and did not communicate properly with either them or me. After 3 months of waiting, after 5 interviews, after a written offer WAS extended to me NOT for the position for which I interviewed, all of a sudden I was not a good fit for them. Terrible, incompetent HR.
