Read this first before accepting any position here - Senior Software Engineer Cvent Employee Review

First of all, beware of the HR reviews claiming to be in a technical position - these are for misleading prospective employees wanting to join the company and an attempt to offset the negative reviews. As a software developer you can usually tell the difference between something written by HR and some in development. 1) Work life balance is non existent. 40 hour weeks are generally frowned up even if you meet all your deadlines, etc. If you take the job, be prepared for 50-60+ hrs per week. 2) Regardless of what office you work in, you will constantly hear from upper mgmt things like “where’s the energy?” and “you guys need to talk more”. Not sure if they realize this, but writing code, debugging/troubleshooting takes concentration. It’s just another level on which mgmt attempts to manage each employee. This gives a whole new meaning to Service with a Smile. 3) Architecture is a joke. For a company that has more architects per capita then you would think that the applications would be architected in a way that makes sense and really helps the company achieve true SOA in their applications. All there is here is a bunch junk spewed out by people who rose to the level of architect simply by staying at the company for several years. The approved technologies by the architects is a joke. If you are involved in a new project, you may have to look outside the “approved toys” section in order to build the application efficiently, securely, etc. 4) Access controls for systems/tools makes no sense. Admins in charge seem to want to make things as difficult as possible for development to get things done in a timely manner. My advice is to push your way through those roadblocks and be persistent. Never be afraid to question what you think is not right or doesn’t make sense to you. 5) Everything is monitored by Big Brother (Cvent). Be careful about what you say/do while your in the office/on the network. 6) Many managers here like to play favorites. Regardless of your productivity, if you are not liked ( you question things, have an opinion, disagree with other members), then you will be put on the s-list. Normally, this would be an amusing thing but since your life could be made a living hell, most opt for just going along with the flow - being truly subservient, which is kind of frieghtening to witness. 7) If you have any ambition at all of climbing the ladder based on performance alone, then this is not the place for you. You will definitely have to play the office politics game.