Gartner Reviews

It took spending a few years of being chronically ill for me to realise that Gartner was not a good place to be. Gartner has the big brand, the winners circle trips and the "development opportunities." When you join you think you're going to be a part of something big and take pride in telling people where you work. Like most toxic relationships, the poor behaviours trickle in slowly: overhearing who the sales team wanted to sleep with, getting told you needed to log on during days when you were so unwell but would do so out of fear each move would jeopardise your career. Over time, the toxicity sort of just hits you all at once and you realise you've been mistreated for so long. What's worse is you ask why you allowed yourself to be treated that way for so long and feel guilty for allowing it to occur. Once you reach your lightbulb moment, you notice that many of the men who you avoided being alone in a room with happen o get a large portion of the promotions. The women who you thought would be "protecting" you, turn out to be internalised misogynists who think punishing women for behaviours they reward in men will move the company forward. Since moving on, I have not had the chronic illness I was experiencing for years at Gartner. The impact of a toxic work environment can ruin your life if you let it. Do yourself a favour and don't put yourself in that position by staying as far as you can from this company.

HR’s only interest is protecting the business at all costs, which includes not addressing sexual harassment claims with due diligence and promoting perpetrators into senior management positions. HR is so busy covering perpetrators’ from unfair dismissal/sexual harassment cases that they have no time to address employee needs and well-being. Gartner’s response to covid was to increase KPIs and to set unrealistic expectations which manifested into mental illnesses in employees across all departments. If you brought forward concerns to the management team about unsustainable workloads, you would be promptly placed on a performance plan and gaslit by leaders who said you were playing the victim. Have you seen the show Industry? The work environment at Gartner is extremely political and you’re constantly stroking people’s egos so they will want to work with you and put you in a good word for you. They will tell you that you are not being hired for the skills and experience you already have, but for the potential they see in you. Then they exploit your potential by putting you through the ringer and pushing you to see how far you can go or if you’ll just crash and burn...but hey that’s what a probationary period is for. One step out of line and they are recruiting your role in the background in case you don’t pass. Turnover is abnormally high. HR is constantly recruiting without actual positions existing because by the time they hire someone new they know someone will have resigned/been fired by then. The sickest part that I witnessed was senior female leaders acting like they were part of the old boy’s club. They knew how to get ahead and focused their energies there rather than leading their teams who were looking for a sliver of hope in upper management. The reality is, no matter what department you work in at Gartner, if you live in Australia, you can find an equal or better paying job working half the hours without all the toxicity.