Gong Reviews & Product Details

What I like best about Gong is how it automatically captures and analyzes all sales conversations, giving us deep insights into customer interactions without manual effort. The platform’s analytics and AI‑driven insights help our teams improve messaging, identify risk or opportunity signals, and tailor coaching. Gong integrates smoothly with our CRM and other sales tools, and using it frequently has noticeably boosted team performance and deal outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Gong delivers powerful insights, some aspects of the user experience could be improved. The interface can feel overwhelming at first, especially for new users, because of the volume of data and features. Implementation and setup took some initial effort, and filtering or finding specific calls can sometimes be unintuitive. Overall it’s valuable, but smoother navigation and simpler onboarding would make it even better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In my role as a Engineer working closely with truck sales and customer discussions, Gong has been very useful in bringing transparency to conversations.

We use Gong to record and review customer calls related to vehicle requirements, technical clarifications, and project discussions. It helps us revisit important points like load requirements, design constraints, and customer expectations without missing details.

One feature I find very helpful is the ability to search conversations and quickly jump to specific topics. This saves time when we need to validate requirements during design stages. It also helps align sales and engineering teams, especially when multiple stakeholders are involved.

Similarly, at L&T Technology Services while working on the Acuity Brands project, we used Gong to bring the same kind of clarity to engineering and project sales conversations. Engineers would discuss pending drawings, project timelines, and workload commitments across multiple calls, and it was very easy for things to get lost without a proper tracking system. Gong helped us monitor how many drawings were pending per engineer, what had been committed on calls, and where delays were forming essentially improving work efficiency and accountability across the team in a very natural and non-intrusive way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One challenge I’ve noticed is that transcription accuracy is not always perfect, especially during technical discussions involving engineering terminology, part names, or abbreviations. So we still need to manually verify certain points.

Also, initially, it took some time for our team to understand how to effectively use filters, dashboards, and insights provided by Gong. A slightly simpler onboarding experience would help new users.

One of the biggest pain points was around handling highly technical conversations. In the Volvo Trucks environment, when a truck breaks down on the production floor, the spare parts order call happens very quickly and is filled with technical language specific part names, catalog codes, brake assembly specifications, bracket dimensions, and so on. While Gong does a great job recording and transcribing these calls, the transcripts were not always clean or accurate when it came to technical terminology. Sales reps still had to manually go back and verify part details, which added an extra step rather than saving time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

From my perspective as a sales rep, Gong is incredibly helpful because it allows me to analyze my meetings in a way that I simply couldn’t do before. Every call is recorded and transcribed, which means I can go back and watch recordings to review what was discussed, catch details I may have missed, and better understand how the conversation went. It also helps me see how I handled objections, how much I talked versus the customer, and where I could improve for future calls. Being able to revisit these meetings not only helps me stay organized with follow-ups, but also makes it easier to continuously improve my sales approach and learn from both my own calls and those of top-performing reps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do feel like the UI could be more intuitive; looking back at historic activities and recordings doesn't work half the time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gong automatically records and analyzes customer conversations, making it easy to revisit important moments from calls without relying on notes.

Searchable transcripts and topic tracking make it simple to find when specific competitors, pricing discussions, or objections came up.

It helps improve sales execution by allowing teams to review real customer interactions instead of relying on secondhand summaries.

The platform also makes it easy to share key call snippets internally so teams can collaborate around deals or learn from strong conversations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface can surface a lot of data and alerts, which sometimes creates noise if teams are not disciplined about how they use it.

Some of the AI insights are helpful but still require human interpretation, especially in complex enterprise sales cycles.

It works best when teams actively review and use the recordings. If adoption is low, much of the value is lost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love how Gong allows me to prepare for follow-on meetings with its mobile app. It helps me get a recap and potential questions to ask during conversations with prospects. The call recording feature is also great, as it helps me review conversations, base my follow-ups on those, and improve with the ratings it provides for each call. This way, I can scale what works and spot what doesn't. I also appreciate that Gong centralizes work for me in one single platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish Gong was embedding in Outlook mail, so I can use the templates from Gong directly from Outlook. So I don't have to go back and forth for the emails since I prefer the Outlook interface better than Gong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gong has kept up with the changes to the product landscape, specifically the "Ask anything" Ai functionality is high quality and allows for easy call interrogation, while the Account Summary option to get a summary of accounts across different time periods is very helpful.

Since my last review I have taken on ownership of the Channel and System Integrator partnerships, and getting a 360 summary of different partner accounts that have been with us for varying time scales has been exceptionally helpful.

Overall the new features are highly robust and I have also had no experience with breakages which is often the case with other new platform components outside of Gong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gong has added native integrations with Outlook and taken the product to a whole new level there, while entirely neglecting this functionality with the Google suite in gmail. I have not seen any news or updates on availability to trial a native integration with gmail, but I see this as the future for call intelligence and sequencing, so would like to be informed if things are changing here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I find most helpful are the call briefs that I can extract from recorded meetings. I can customize the type of brief to extract only the information I need to curate my outreach for each client. This saves me a significant amount of time. Additionally, I appreciate the analytics for my meetings, which provide insights into when I talk excessively and suggest appropriate pause times to allow the client to speak. This has greatly improved my meeting communication skills. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes, it takes a bit longer than anticipated to analyze my calls and provide me with a concise summary so that I can draft my follow-up emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I’ve really started liking how accurate the AI insights have become. It actually picks up the important parts of calls and saves a lot of time with summaries. The visibility into deals and team activity is also very helpful. it just makes tracking everything much easier without extra effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The mobile app could definitely be better. it still feels a bit limited compared to desktop. Also, when you first start using it, the dashboards can be a little confusing. Once you get used to it, it’s great, but making it more user-friendly in the beginning would help a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like best about Gong is how it turns real customer conversations into clear, actionable insights. It’s not just recordings, it connects what customers actually say to coaching, deal health, and strategy, so teams can improve faster based on reality, not guesswork. The visibility it gives across sales, CS, and product makes alignment way easier and decisions a lot smarter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If I had to pick a downside, it can feel a bit heavy at times. There’s a lot of data and features, which is powerful, but it can be overwhelming for new users and takes some ramp-up to use really well. Also, the UI and alerts can sometimes surface too much information, so you have to be intentional about tuning it to what actually matters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find Gong incredibly useful for call recordings, summarization, and preparation. The summarization and creation of follow-up emails saves me at least 30 minutes per call, which is essential for me as a CSM. I really like the follow-up emails and the ability to prepare for meetings using AI. I appreciate having everything centralized into one tool, allowing me to see what my Sales team is doing on my account without having to listen to the full recording. It's great to be able to quickly search through my calls when I'm unsure about a topic and find the precise moment in the call where things were mentioned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the Forecasting could be better, we tried it for a little while for renewals and it still needs improvement. We have the integration with Gainsight but that could be improved in order to record directly the call summaries in a timeline activity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.