Pros
- Good place to get your feet wet in sales without having a lot of pressure - It's a young environment & you will make many friends - Although you have to be in the office for long hours than normal, it's a pretty relaxed environment while in the office - Good event management software
Cons
- Other than the CEO & co founder (sometimes the VPs) no managers have any sort of decision making power - They make you sign a 2 yr contract and have now added to the contract that you cannot work for certain companies that are NOT even competitors after you leave Cvent - New initiatives are unrolled too early where there isn't enough bandwidth to get anything done and managers aren't accessible because they are busy with other things - Pay is poor. When I was interviewing, every employer & recruiter said that I was underpaid for my abilities as a sales person. - Management judges your performance by # of hours in the office, not by production. If you want to succeed and move up be prepared to work from 8am to 7pm. "Standard" Cvent hours are 8:30 - 6pm which is already a long day but trust me, that is the bare minimum. - Brown nosing is rewarded - No training whatsoever - There are 3 products at Cvent: Event Management, Cvent Supplier Network, & Survey. If you decide to sign on, make sure it's on the Event management side. The Supplier Network you are selling advertising to a finite universe & the Survey division is overpriced and is a struggle. Event management is Cvent's bread and butter & you aren't selling to a finite universe.
