Things started off nicely with Cvent. I applied for an account manager position online, and I was contacted within the week. The initial screening with the HR person was brief and I was scheduled to meet with a sales manager within the same week. The application emailed to me was a little odd in that it asked for my W-2 info, highschool, and college GPA. I figured none of these things were any of their business at this stage in the process. This is where things started to go awry. The sales manager I spoke with seemed very engaged, and even asked some decent probing questions. He was very interested in meeting me and requested an in-person interview. The next day, he called to confirm and informed me that he had "managed to convince some people to take time out of their day to meet with me". He said the interview would last almost all day, which I appreciated knowing in advance. Once in the office, the reality of things became apparent. This was not a group of people taking time out of their day to meet me, this was a large-scale "interview day". There were probably 15 fresh or soon-to-be college grads being herded around the office, as well as a few less-recent grads like myself. I was told that I would meet 1:1 with a couple of managers and the CEO, and then spend the rest of the day "shadowing" sales people. Given that I had not applied for a sales rep. role, this concerned me. When I met with the two sales managers, things got worse: The account management role that I applied to online didn't actually exist yet. I was told I would probably spend "some time" in a sales role before transitioning to account management. I was perturbed but pressed on. The CEO was another experience altogether. He first gave us all a presentation detailing why he hires fresh out of college, career paths, etc., as well as the rationale behind the 2-year binding commitment you may have read about here. He showed us around the office, extolling the "generous" benefits package (his main selling point was a subsidized gym membership), and then it was my turn to meet with him. The CEO is, by all accounts, an energetic, intelligent person. He expressed genuine concern that I had been misled, because apparently they had no need for the advertised position for at least a year and was indeed being interviewed for a sales position. Things got even worse. He again asked for my w-2 info and various GPA's. I informed him that I wasn't comfortable divulging salary information just yet, and was curious as to why my GPA mattered so much, given that I'm 3 years out of college (both of my GPAs were excellent, but I was a little put off by their interest). After that, we discussed what I wanted and didn't want, and things seemed to be coming to a close. However, he apparently deemed me worthy of some of his wisdom and "planned my life out for me" before I left. I got nuggets including but not limited to: "You would never get into a top-tier law school, and law school isn't for you"; "You belong in sales"; "You have too many jobs on your resume, so the next one you take had better be good, or else you'll be five years trying to clean it up"(I've had two jobs since college); and "If you're not careful, you'll end up like so many of my friends, in their mid-30's with no career direction and years of mistakes behind them". You know, stuff you expect to hear from someone within the first 10 minutes of meeting them.