SPAM Marketing, Weak Leadership and Weaker Decisions - Marketing Associate Gartner Employee Review

1.0
29 May 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Close to my house - Great brand - Most of the people are great to work with - GYM - Decent work life balance

Cons

- Management doesn't really care about marketing, they care about looking good to their own bosses, so they will say anything to them to keep them happy - We are doing SPAM marketing (how sucky is that?, its 2016 for heavens sake, stop spamming!) - Lots of smoke and mirror type stuff going on around here, so sad - Morale is crazy, crazy LOW but no one really cares - Their are some people that are in high positions have NO social skills to be there or marketing skills (no joke, serious problem and a morale factor) - I feel like the leaders in the marketing department have no clue on how to really do marketing the right way to build a long term program - Everything takes months to get done because management takes till the last minute to make a decision on something (this is a problem everywhere at Gartner, people are so risk averse even though our own research tells us not to be) Simply put: Our marketing house is on FIRE but instead of bringing water, leadership is bringing more Kerosene!

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