Two years they say you should complete, By that time you are brain-dead. - Marketing Research Associate Cvent Employee Review

1.0
Jun 17, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I write only for the Marketing Research Associate role The work is repetitive and sad, Pro being once you get used to it, you can find your ways around it. The crowd is young, since they hire only freshers for this role, so i made some good friends.

Cons

Where do i start and where do i stop? Marketing Research associate has got nothing to do with Marketing and has nothing to do with research. If they could manufacture robots to feed data into their systems, they would not need people anymore. No one cares about the marketing department, It is shoddy and mistreated. No one i met at the floor was actually happy with what they were doing. The mid level management is the worst, The people who are now managers and senior managers were associates at one point of time, with a small team back then they were to work as mules, now that they have been promoted they are giving the same thing back to new hires. Everything is monitored from your breaks to browsing to everything, while all that seems fine, what would you do at your desk when the work is so repetitive you want to kill yourself. All the good, bright one's leave early or once they complete two years, People who stay back are ineffecient and disorganized and they stay back because if you are paid to do nothing why would you want a job where you are paid higher to do something? The salary is less and you work for 9.5 hours.

Explore other reviews about Cvent

5.0
Mar 2, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

1
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All