Pros
Really smart and committed peers in the analyst community who want to do the right thing for our clients.
Cons
Comply-or-die culture. Senior leadership wants automation-like behaviors out of the human beings they currently employ. Examples include the fixation on measuring Prep Dashboard and Send Research (that our clients don't want) automatic scheduling of three or four hours of back-to-back inquiry calls without breaks. No time to write research or even prepare presentations during office hours. On top of this as a research analyst you are pitted against your peers in a stack ranking performance management program that most companies gave up years ago. No one in management can give you a clue about what it takes to earn a promotion and there is no investment into skills development. Becoming a Gartner analyst is a great fit for you if you are age 58 or older, are able to put on blidners and not care about management pestering you about metrics and just need a place to park it and get a paycheck until it's retirement time.