Highly recommended place to start and grow your career - Anonymous employee Cvent Employee Review

5.0
6 Jul 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Cvent is a high growth and energetic company that rewards you for working hard. They have great training when you first start (if you start during the summer time where they train about 60 people for 6 weeks). The people are great and i respect the management team. I am not sure i want a career in software, but if you do you will learn alot here. They hire almost all high achievers and if you thrive in that environment then you will like it here. The two things i like the most here are that you can take on a ton of responsibility within a few years (i talk to my friends who work at other companies and they barely have real contact with clients) and you have the opportunity to go to our india office after being with the company for a few years. I have and will continue to recommend Cvent to my friends.

Cons

The job can get slightly boring sometimes (i have worked at other places so i know this happens everywhere). The company measures your performance alot and hitting your metrics every month is stressed quite a bit, but they are pretty laid back about letting people work the hours they want and even going to the gym at lunch time. The last thing i would say is we need to better understand our career path at the company if we stay long term. You will have to commit to a 2 year training agreement - the company is up front about it and i understand it, but make sure you want to join the company.

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5.0
2 Mar 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
7 Jul 2026
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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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