Don't Do It - Client Success Advisor Cvent Employee Review

2.0
Apr 11, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Other departments seem to be a lot healthier to work in

Cons

If you ever have the opportunity to join this company, do NOT do it in the Client Success Advisor role. You will be: 1.) Micromanaged 2.) Expected to perform unrealistic metrics regardless of circumstance (i.e. they still expect you to get the same number of Sales Opps even though we're in a global pandemic and event planners are being laid off left and right) 3.) Underpaid 4.) Expected "not" to go over 42.5 hrs 5.) Will not receive the same opportunities to contribute to the CSA team if you're in a remote/non-HQ office (i.e. Dallas, London, Portland, India, etc.) 6.) Be forced in a 2 year contract 7.) Will not have any previous career experience respected 8.) Will be left out if you're not in the OG in-crowd 9.) Constantly confused with forever changing responsibilities and the judged instantly on them 10.) Will not be trained to do your job adequately enough This is not a role for someone who has previous work experience. Regardless of how much experience that is, you WILL get treated like a recent college graduate in their first professional job. CSA leadership does not care. Allegedly they are stressed about the turnover on a normal day and yet do nothing to try to understand why. Some of the KPIs they enforce are completely subjective to your manager's opinion, not fact. Depending on your manager, they will be ruthless about you asking for help as well. It's a fear driven culture that you should not be apart of.

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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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