A Joke of a Company - Client Services Cvent Employee Review

1.0
Mar 16, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

If you're a naive, recent college grad with little to no experience in the meetings & events world who desperately needs a job and will work long hours for a measly salary and marginal benefits, then you've landed on the perfect place to work!

Cons

- CEO is pathetic. He's the most unpolished, full of himself cheapskate out there who is only successful because he locks his clients into iron-clad contracts, nickels and dimes them (i.e. charging his own customers implementation hours for a required migration from the Lanyon platform to the Cvent platform--both owned by HIM), and treats his employees like nameless & faceless minions. - Management spends more time requiring employees to document productivity than actually encouraging them to be productive. You'll be spoken to if you're timecard (required even for seasoned professionals) is below 45hrs/week. - "Bleed Blue" or you're out! If you're not loyal and kiss up to your managers or to leadership, you'll be looked over for any kind of promotion. - Any kind of "promotion" is a scam to trick the above naive, recent college grads to think there's upward mobility. Is it really a promotion when someone in the same role goes from Analyst to Sr. Analyst, to Consultant, to Sr. Consultant, to Asst. Lead, to Lead, to Sr. Lead, to Asst Mgr, to Mgr, etc.? Wake up and smell the Kool-Aid. - They refer to India as their "Secret Weapon" and everyone is required to give part of their workload to the teams there. At one point there was an MBO related to it. - Benefits (i.e. health, 401k, vacation policy, etc.) are horrible. I mean, that would require Reggie to open up his wallet for something other than his own purpose that can't be shown via a PR stunt.

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5.0
Mar 2, 2026
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Pros

Great people and the job was fun.

Cons

Did not get paid what I’m worth. Not flexible in pay. Kept in the dark regarding pay for a long time.

1.0
Jul 7, 2026
Recommend
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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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