I have been thinking about writing this review for a long time, but how Gartner conducts itself during the pandemic has been so awful that I couldn't stay silent anymore. Let me talk about the actual job first. If you come from agency background, you will find yourself at home with silly targets on the number of reach outs, canvas calls and all that jazz. Just don't expect a lucrative bonus to pay for you competing with 10 other recruiters who all cover the same territory. Candidates that know those who work at Gartner usually stay away. In some regions it is a real problem and for a good reason. Micromanagement is the norm here. So are affairs - I've never seen this many affairs and hook ups between employees, in any place I worked since my teens. Your workload will be fairly small, yet you still have targets on your back. Internal hiring is discouraged because it doesn't count towards your and your managers targets. The company has been going through a number of freezes for quite some time now and so you will spend your time talking to candidates wasting their time because you have no roles, but must hit your numbers. Be prepared that your colleagues and manager are going to listen to your calls. Do not expect a promotion, there are several layers of management and you need to be best pals with your manager or even better, with your manager's manager. One of the managers of one of the other teams left because she knew that despite her work she would never go beyond where she was. You are expected to follow orders and not object, it's the Gartner way or the highway. Challenging the status quo they bang on about is just smoke and mirrors. You cannot challenge anything apart form your client's budgets or repeated rejections, or so the Sales teams say. There is a lot of backstabbing, fakery, egos, politics, and toxicity just about everywhere and don't think you can raise anything with HR, they won't help you. Now let's talk about how Gartner handled the pandemic. At first everyone was reassured that they are all safe. New employees due to start were not going to be affected. Shortly after the offers of employment were being retracted. Some people have already finished their previous employment. They were left with nothing. Gartner is so dumb that the decisions made in the US were made without any knowledge of the local employee rights and they didn't know that in some countries it's illegal to retract an offer. The recruiters in Sales team were affected by this the most. Pay increases were cancelled too, regardless of the circumstances. After this, another reassurance was made - there will be no redundancies. So nearly the entire Events business was made redundant about 3 weeks later, and some of the recruitment support functions were affected too. But what does Mr CEO do? Nothing. He tells us about his new puppy in a global call. Then he makes more redundancies. Something is clearly missing here... Oh wait! Where is your pay cut, Mr CEO? Gartner prides itself on its integrity. Shame to say they wouldn't know what integrity was if it smashed into their face, let alone back of their head. Go somewhere where you can really make a difference and learn. Coming to Gartner was the biggest career mistake I made.
