Gartner reviews

A poor professional working experience. Days before starting I was informed on email, rather than call, that my manager was leaving and someone else I hadn't met/spoken to would be my manager. Throughout first year, myself and another new joiner were not offered 1-1s because "it wasn't worth managers and VP of Sales' time". Instead we had joint sessions with our manager and VP of Sales. Constant changes to sales strategy and approach meant no one in the team had consistent success, and no one in my sales team of 7 hit target in 2023. VP of Sales lost their job, and someone else moved internally to replace them, bringing about more changes. Our Manager could not manage upwards and downwards, becoming a corporate soundpiece for the VP and Regional VP. No real, honest, human conversations took place to address individual and team issues, with problems left unaddressed hoping they would resolve/go away. The market in our team proved to be unsellable by the "sellable criteria" created by leadership, resulting in members of the team leaving. Gartner could have been a great place to work if placed into a different division/team.

Success is based on luck of your territory. If you get bad clients and there is nothing you can do to fix it, management thinks it is your fault. There’s a reason data on performance is skewed. You have 10 top performers and then hundreds of mediocre.