Awful Pay and No Work Life Balance - Account Executive Gartner Employee Review

2.0
5 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The sales training is a great refresher course or good for a rookie salesperson. That’s really the only good thing about working for this company

Cons

The pay is well below where it should be. They sell you on hopes and dreams to get you in the door and you don’t make anywhere close to what they say you will. The numbers they’re basing your OTE on are from 2 years ago when there was a tech boom. No work/life balance. You’ll grind non stop and they give you nothing in return. They email and message on Teams before and after hours and you have to grind over Christmas as well. Micromanagement. They track everything and want to know your every move. They check your emails, Teams, activity in the crm like you’ve probably never experienced Everyone who works as an AE or BD is fresh out of college so you almost feel like you’re working in a frat house. This job would be good for anyone 27 and below

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2.0
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Recommend
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Pros

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Cons

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