Cvent reviews

LOW PAY! Horrible! The worst I have ever seen! Their salaries are only competitive with McDonald's and other service sector jobs. I'm not kidding about that either. The CEO is always talking about offering "competitive salaries". Ha! Competitive with who? Burger cooks at McDonald's hahaha! Expect no work life balance. Expect to work long hours, especially if you are in Sales. They make you work a minimum of 9.5 hours a day and you are monitored. You will work more hours..especially in Sales, trust me. Expect no life here. They make you sign a 2 year bond or you have to pay back $7,500. Yup, you read that right...$7,500! Many leave before the 2 years because this place is so horrible. No 401k matching, despite everyone requesting this. Reggie says that stock options replace 401k matching. Are you serious? Oh right, anything requiring Cvent to pay employees they cheap out on. Only 15 days of PTO and no sick days. No President's Day or MLK off like most other good companies. They promote people a lot, but guess what? NO PAY INCREASE! Oh of course they won't increase your pay for promotions like NORMAL companies. All of your hard work is for what? NOTHING. They are so cheap! But OH they have plenty of money for Cvent Connect at fancy Las Vegas venues, a fancy new Tyson's office and steak dinners for prospects. Explain that. The bonus you get is taxed heavily and the annual pay increase is minimal every year. Only like 6%. They talk about being the "Best Company to work for in the DC area"...yeah right. If your company is so great, why do you need a 2 year bond to hold people here? Cvent is CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP. They won't even cut on the A/C and heat during the weekends and they shut it off after 7pm on the weekdays to save on the power bill. But again, Cvent has plenty of money for fancy Las Vegas venues, a new Tyson's office and steak dinners for prospects. Explain that. I have moved on from this horrible place and now I earn a market rate salary now (which is very high for me), only work 8 hours and my commute in the DC area is awesome now. I work at a NORMAL company now. DO NOT WORK HERE. READ THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS, THEY ARE SO ACCURATE! I speak nothing but the 100% truth. Everyone here is complaining about the same things. Ignore the glowing positive HR reviews. HR needs to post negative reviews because they know this company is bad. AGAIN, STAY AWAY FROM THIS HORRIBLE PLACE! I HAVE WITNESSES WHO CAN BACK UP MY CLAIMS! Find another company and avoid Cvent at all costs. Cvent is the worst company ever!

There's a lot to say, and I might expand this review later. This company tries really hard to get employees to buy into how great they are, and to adopt cvent as part of their personal identity, and that should be a pretty big red flag right there. Higher-ups, and individual employees, often sprout rhetoric about, "how great cvent is," but I suspect that anyone who's using that rhetoric and isn't in management is doing so because they were snatched up right out of college and don't know any better. One of the first warnings was that about a month or so after I started working, I received a box with the obligatory company swag (branded notebook, branded coffee mug, branded stress ball, branded mouse pad, I think there was also a pen) and a letter explicitly instructing me to post on LinkedIn and social networks a picture of our swag and a message about how excited we were to work for cvent. Two or three months after starting, I was told very directly that as a senior engineer I was expected to work, in general, over 40 hours a week (it's not uncommon for software engineer in a salaried role to sometimes go over in order to get a project out the door, or solve something that came up unexpectedly, but this isn't a weekly expectation). This company is trying to create the atmosphere of really Google and early Amazon where employees are so ridiculously ecstatic to be working for them, that they'll gladly sacrifice their personal mental and emotional health. A lot of other employees write on here about being locked into some kind of ridiculous contract where if they leave the company and under two years they're expected to spend several thousand dollars to "pay back" the company for their training. Thankfully, I was not subjected to this. I took off after a little more than a year, and then took a few months to work on my mental health before looking for a new position. This time, I was a lot more particular about who I interviewed with, instead of just letting some random company aggressively recruit me on the basis of being so excited to have me and offering me a salary bump and a senior title. This is my first comment and hopefully only negative review I have left for former employer on Glassdoor.