Do not join even if its the last company on earth - Senior Software Engineer Cvent Employee Review

1.0
Oct 25, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None at all, i repeat none at all.

Cons

I am in the technology department. The company HR highlights it as "the company" to work for and can speak for hours about its benefits and how it will change your life after you join it. I will highlight each and every issue i faced here in last 2 years. 1) Very bad management. The Indian technology team leaders are totally misleading their US counterparts. They claim in their calls to US that they are hiring from the top-most colleges in India for their technology team but you will start laughing the moment they start taking the colleges names. 2) HR claims that only 5 people have left in the last 5 years. But i saw 5-7 people leaving just after my few months of joining. Some freshers even left without serving the notice period and a couple of experienced guys left the company within few months of joining. 3) The salary is better than other firms but they give high salaries otherwise nobody will join them. In fact everyone says that they got lured by the salary itself and now regret the decision. 4) Politics is the backbone of the technology department management. You will not even have the slightest idea of what is cooking behind you. 5) During appraisal meetings, very ridiculous feedbacks are given to employees. 6) Parameters are not same for everyone and differ from person to person. If you take your leaders out for dinners regularly then they will take care of you otherwise you will find yourself in their firing line. I am often called for lunch/dinner via communicator and when someone asks the other person says that we are just downstairs for a walk. 7) everyone has to complete 9:30 hours everyday and have to explain the next morning to your manager why you left 10 minutes early the previous day. Say bye-bye to your work life balance.

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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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