Scary Place - Account Executive Gartner Employee Review

1.0
Jun 17, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Lots to learn Smart analysts Made some good friends

Cons

I believe I was taken advantage of. When I was here people got promoted simply because they got to winners circle which is 130% of target. Most of that was luck or a good territory or your manager moving some stuff around internally for you. Didn’t matter if you were corrupt, narcissistic, evil, racist, sexist or a bully as long as you got to winner circle. Once you did you were immediately considered leadership material and could do no wrong. If you became a manager your target dropped to 101%. High performance was is measured in terms of numbers only. In my opinion thats a top-down issue always promoting the wrong self-serving people with no people management skills. There was so much toxicity and over half the people I knew just disappeared. I saw so many new starters dreams crushed in such a short time. I was scared working here. My family convinced me to leave and now I am so much better.

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