Pros
I decided to give some thoughts on Cvent because one of my friends who i encouraged to apply for a job at Cvent told me about this site and i do not think it fairly represented what the vast majority of the employees feel about the company. To give you a sense of how the company is doing, in June 2009, the Washington Business Journal award Cvent as "one of the best places to work in DC" after doing a confidential survey of all the Cvent employees. In addition, our CEO was just named the 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Greater Washington area - we were all pretty excited about these two awards. Cvent is an extremely fast growing and successful company. The best thing about the company is it puts you through a 8 week training course and really gives you the freedom to grow quickly within the company. The management team is great and they have all been at the company since it started so you know they are really passioniate about the company. Most of my colleagues are prettyhappy at the company. I know that people that leave the company almost always end up going to get their MBA or Law degree. The environment is very young and web 2.0ish (if that is a word). I would say all the young people hang out on weekends with other Cvent people because we have some really cool people that work here. Probably the best thing about the company besides the ability to grow quickly is that everyone here is very smart and they like to work hard - but party hard. Great culture, great opportunities and they really invest in their young employees and help them mature into leaders.
Cons
I think management sometimes is so focused on growth and getting into new product lines that they do not communicate everything that is going on in the company. We have 2 or 3 company wide meetings a year where are CEO goes through all of our financials and strategy (i am pretty surprised with how transparent the company is with all this information) but i think we need to get into smaller groups to discuss how we can get more involved. You really have to believe in the motto "work hard and play hard".
