Gong can do a LOT for you
April 26, 2025

Gong can do a LOT for you

James Schilling | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Gong

There is so much Gong does. First the ability to score calls among peers or have feedback given is an incredibly helpful way to level up and this is done so easily in Gong. It is so simple for a manager to write direct feedback about a certain point of a call or about the call as a whole. The UI is simple enough to follow and the searching for calls is fluid. It integrates easily to our tools and has been a very complete call library. I personally enjoy the ability to make call playlists of different types of calls. These playlists can be used on the mobile app and call studying can be done while on the go. Within our business, Gong has helped to organize all of our demonstrations and customer conversations going back several years. This is just so helpful when needing to reference information from the past. Another helpful feature has been the AI and call analytics. As Gong analyzes our calls we are given top talking points and insight into what customers thought was most valuable. We also get an outline and summary of the call. This has been a tremendous time saver when writing follow-ups as this is so easy to reference. So much time is saved and learning is done easily with Gong.

Pros

  • Provides a complete transcription and outline of our demonstrations and calls
  • Ability to share calls for scoring and comments
  • Call playlists to help with learnings and trainings

Cons

  • Some calls are slow to upload and analyze
  • The platform can have lag on startup
  • High price
  • Personally it has cut my email response times in half after meetings as the outlines and summaries are that good.
  • Sales team has continued to hit higher revenue goals in part due to the coaching, comments and call sharing.
  • Training for new employees is smoother with saved playlists of important demonstrations and calls to learn from.
I feel like the platform overall has nearly perfected what it is trying to do. As a call library and analytics analyzer it does this so well. The UI is simple enough and it is not too hard to learn all the features. I would say the only major complaint about usability is it can sometimes be a bit lagging on startup or slow to analyze some calls.
Gong has definitely provided our team accurate insights in spades. The transcriptions and call analysis saves us a tremendous amount of time when working on written followups after meetings or calls. The outlines and summaries appear to be accurate as well as the highlights of top talking points. The highlights about who is speaking is very accurate. I would say the call sentiment is the only thing that may not always be perfectly reliable.
As a training tool for call feedback, our team continues to level up and adapt to what customers are saying utilizing Gong recordings. We can easily hear which competitors seem to be popular or which objections are becoming spoken more often and we can learn to adapt together. The keyword searches for a specific word amongst recordings is incredibly helpful in this whole process.
I've used Chorus at a past company. It seems to do the transcriptions similarly accurately to Gong. Good enough call recording. The call feedback can be done too although maybe not as easily. I do not believe Chorus can create call playlists. I do feel there are a lot less analytics pieces to Chorus too. There are many feature addons in Gong to help sales motions.

Do you think Gong delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Gong's feature set?

Yes

Did Gong live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Gong go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Gong again?

Yes

Gong is well suited for note annotation during a call or meeting as the automatically generated transcriptions appear to be nearly perfect.
Gong is also great for tracking the calls of peers and leaving feedback so the whole team can level up together.
Gong is not always so timely in analyzing a call so if you need to understand a call that was recently made, you may be out of luck.

Gong Feature Ratings

Speech-to-Text Transcription
9
Keyword Detection
9
Sentiment Analysis
7
Speaker Diarization
10
Call Recording Playback
9
Call Summarization
10
Conversion Metrics
10
Keyword Search & Retrieval
10
Call Tagging
10
Integration with CRM Systems
9

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