Pros
There are opportunities to travel with the company and the role at the cost of overworking yourself.
Cons
I worked at Gartner for over a year and in that time I saw a turnover of at least 40 people in my office. A worrying amount for any workplace but apparently not enough to raise any alarm bells for Gartner. My role was unrelenting from the beginning with close to no room for respite. It was severely underpaid for the amount of work I was expected to complete day-to-day as well as the after hours meetings required for me to liaise with the global team. Management was unsupportive and oftentimes unsympathetic to the needs of a one man team in a regional office. On multiple occasions the role expected you to work overtime with little to no support and little to no compensation. Management was almost impossible to compromise with despite expecting frontline staff to come up with solutions to hierarchical issues (and still not making any changes). The tasks themselves were fairly straightforward but the sheer quantity of work was too much for one person -feedback which fell on deaf ears. In my brief period at the company, I had 3 different managers -all of whom did not know how to manage a remote employee making it extremely difficult for career progression to be genuinely considered let alone acheived. The expectation of the role is beyond what is necessary for tasks to get done. The attention to detail required for the multitude of tasks is superfluous but treated as though it is of utmost importance. Many tasks are required to be completed to perfection with little understanding for error (despite being stretched so thin). Projects are expected to be completed under extremely tight deadlines with little understanding on how or why they need to be completed. My role was constantly considered a passion project in which you would only take on this job if you "love events". Whilst the majority of work in this role is autonomous, you are expected to form interoffice relationships as you support their needs. The office culture is toxic - resembling that of a frat house. Gossip, cliques and harassment run rife and are accepted as commonplace with little to no consequences for perpetrators. The result is mass exodus.
