Exciting & Challenging - Senior Associate Cvent Employee Review

4.0
Dec 9, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are 50/month for single plans (US) Values ethics and open door policy. No “me to” concerns. Annual salary increases and bonus payouts are basically guaranteed. Work from home up to once a week 15-20 days PTO, 8 holidays + 2 misc, 3 sick days which cannot be scheduled in advance. 401k match, although it's very complicated. 3% match with a $3,500 cap. 5-YEAR vesting schedule. Must be employed at the end of the year to receive the match. Promotion opportunities, but it does not come with pay increase. Clear expectations of my role before joining. Lots of stretch projects and areas for growth. Trust from managers to do my job. Great team and coworkers Cvent has self awareness of their areas of improvement and works hard to improve. Larger issues linger because it can be difficult to convince management/CEO of a real solution.

Cons

Vista and the mandated test with no visibility of your own score. Repayment agreement of $7,000 if you leave before 18 months. Work life balance, 50+ hour work week. It feels normal that everyone around you is constantly overworked and overwhelmed. Manual processes which largely contribute to the work life balance issue. Leadership: disorganized project management, lack of direction. Many initiatives are executed poorly as a result. Efforts feel wasted. Occasionally promotes based on tenure and the negative effects show Performance rating is skewed. “No one” can earn the highest rating and your score can be lowered for no reason.

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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
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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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