Do your homework on the culture - cheap, cheap, cheap - Anonymous employee Cvent Employee Review

2.0
Sep 1, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Smart, engaged and energetic people - Lots of full time work from home jobs and they completely outfit you with a great work at home setup

Cons

- They make it known right away that a 40 hour work week isn't enough - leaving at 5pm is frowned upon and you get stares as you exit the place. - There is an element of micromanagement - everything is over processed, everyone fills out a timesheet - The office is tight beyond belief. Not only is it an open floor plan, but you are crammed into your workspace like a sardine with ZERO privacy or personal space...it is awful. - The place is dressed up nice but as you look around, the office is a little worn down. - The travel policy...wow. Expect to have to share hotel rooms with co-workers. They will even pair you up with co-workers that you don't know. For example, if you are going to be at headquarters, they will pair you up with someone else who happens be visiting headquarters and you don't know who it is. This is NO joke and it strictly enforced. On top of that, the per diem is $40 per day. Not per meal...not for dinner...$40 per day. They act like it is a big privilege to do business travel. - During the recruiting process and onboarding process, they don't tell you what the travel policy is so you don't find out until you start and even then, you don't find out until you are asked to travel. Oh...by the way...managers don't have to adhere to the room sharing. - You have to take an aptitude test TWICE before they will hire you. The 1st is before your interview and 2nd is done in front of someone so they know you didn't get help.

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5.0
Mar 2, 2026
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Pros

Great people and the job was fun.

Cons

Did not get paid what I’m worth. Not flexible in pay. Kept in the dark regarding pay for a long time.

1.0
Jul 7, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

I tried to come up with one, but simply cannot.

Cons

The pay and benefits are well below industry standards. Cvent loves to talk about being a SaaS industry leader, and in the same sentence offer you "benefits" from the 90s (accrued PTO, vesting 401k, etc). The OTEs are a good 30-40% below industry standards as well. OTE obviously it not everything, but it comes with a complimentary bogus commission plan. Sold a big deal in Q1 that gets you to 200% for the quarter? Hope you enjoy getting only 125% of that. They hang on to the rest to pay you out on any underperforming quarters, which is paternalistic and does not respect the time value of the money you earned. My other primary complaint is the abysmal culture. Granted, Cvent's goal is certainly to create an army of employees who never talk negatively of the company and praise its every move. So congrats to them, they have largely achieved this. For those of us who can see past this facade, it is a dark reality. They still refer to themselves as a family, which I thought companies had learned long ago was something you should not do. I also witnessed a whole auditorium of employees stand and clap for the CEO when he came on stage, which was so dystopian and disturbing. Both of these points can best be summarized by when I shared my critique of the new commission plan with a sales leader. We were not given our Q1 quotas/commission plans until well after the quarter was complete, which is a failure on so many levels. When I gave this feedback, I was told its "just a small step back for the company on the march towards the company's revenue goal." No rep should be asked to sacrifice their own success and financial planning for the benefit of their corporate overlords. If you are in SaaS sales, please look elsewhere.

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