Pros
Intelligent, engaging colleagues. If you don't care about your individual results, then you can have a great work-life balance.
Cons
If you do care about your results, the work-life balance is impossible. Company made shift to measuring contract value a couple of years ago and results are poor. Exec management continuously says everything is going well and glosses over the "CV minus double digits" results- blaming everything on the economy when our competitors are doing well. An influx of former Gartner people have been hired since the new chief sales officer started in January (with 23 years at Gartner.) We can't copy Gartner's success by trying to adopt its (very different) culture. It appears that salespeople are being encouraged to mislead customers about what they get with our products, and the research team has to "make it right" for them - at the cost of their integrity, schedules, and research. The quality of the research is dropping- the focus is on click bait, sound bytes, and "gut" info vs. solid research. While I value concise writing, we're losing the "grit" we always leveraged and now rely more on third-party sources instead of our own data and research. Our values are client, courage, collaboration, integrity, and quality... and we're failing on most of them.
