Pros
- Access to IT Research - Ability to work with Senior Executives of companies - Independent work environment (telecommuting is normal)
Cons
- to understand how Gartner operates you have to basically brown nose the MPs - to ensure you have a project to work on, you have to constantly search out what is coming up which means more brown nosing of the MPs - getting to work on a project is more about who you have kissed up to the most vs what skills and knowledge you bring to the table - performance evals are very subjective and normalzed so that only those that brown nose the most are awarded the full bonus payout - compete against your coworkers all the time - somewhat cliqueish environment - rather high utilization rate - the rate is based upon 2080 hours a year meaning they don't believe you should take holidays - they believe that you can work on holidays and therefore you are penalized for taking them i.e., your utilization rate is decreased each holiday you take thus hurting your chances to earn your bonus