Save Yourself from a Career Blunder! - Senior SDA Cvent Employee Review

1.0
Oct 6, 2025
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Pros

1)The pay is okay, compared to the market. 2)Work is fun if you like finding solutions. 3) Exposure to SAAS and Events industry is on the high. 4) Opportunities to create a network with clients is high 5) The work can be challenging but is never monotonous.

Cons

1) There is no work life balance. You work for 12 hours in a 9 hour shift, with only ungrateful behaviour from leaders. 2) Claims to pay well where in actually the company pays peanuts in comparison to the work put in by the employees. 3)Biased Management 4) HR saves leadership against POSH claims by employees 5) Highest retaliation against whistleblower 6) Their products have a gazillion flaws but all they service clients with is “make-shift” solutions. Product improvement is a a myth and SLAs for such are never concrete. 7)Teams claim to be cross functional but are highly critical of each other’s work making it appear to be a war between departments. 8) The rate of success in terms of Career growth is only high for the employees who have good relations with the Management. Others do progress but at a much slower pace. 9) They hire to fire. The LND Creates unnecessarily stressful environment during training which goes on for 3-6 months. 10) There is little to no accountability when it comes to promotions or yearly ratings. Leadership mostly use the term “bell curve” to justify anything and everything. 11) Some teams don’t even have proper documentation of processes let alone work on process improvement. SOPs are created when the need of hiring new team members arise. 12) Campus infrastructure in Gurgaon is below standards. They have like one or two floors in a building in Cyber City and advertise themselves as if they own the entire cyber city. 13) HRBPs are cruel and are often found conducting themselves as if they own the business. They lack professionalism.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 7, 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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