Research Content Specialist - Research Content Specialist Gartner Employee Review

1.0
Apr 21, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

PTO. Period. They give everyone new 21 days and 9 company holidays. That's really the only pro.

Cons

I would advise anyone who wishes to grow or be professionally developed to not work for the Research Engagement Services Team. Worst department ever. All about numbers and micromanaging. A new lady is in charge of the department and she's awful. They hire external people as managers (with no management experience) to run fully developed teams and basically ruin them. Sales walks all over this department. They're very weird about Work at Home, flexible schedules. They try to control everything and micromanage you. They promote people based on how well they input numbers. They blacklist people if they want to purse other opportunities within the company. They make you apply and interview for promotions, instead of giving them based on merit. The VP of the department is so out of touch, I don't even know what he does. I can go on. But honestly, I would avoid working in this department. Go into account management, go into sales, go into events. Stay away. You're treated as a second class citizen when you work in good ole RES.

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