Good people, poor benefits and mediocre pay - Director Cvent Employee Review

3.0
Aug 16, 2020
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Pros

Senior execs are quite good. "VPs" and most Directors are mediocre at best supporting the Peter Principle. Many earned their spot simply by staying 10 years, and at least half seem to do nothing useful at all. Culture is generally upbeat and fun with a young culture with many undergrads

Cons

Compensation compared to tech industry is just OK. Nowhere near west coast salaries of course. Benefits are abysmal. 4 sick days. 401k match briefly only existed for a year or so as and was a tiny percent, but now is withdrawn with covid. Health insurance has a high copay, and recent changes worsened the plans even more with employee responsibility for all imaging and other tests. Most employees have no equity post-merger. Current covid status: one week required furlough, no 2020 bonuses, no 401k match.

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Pros

Great culture with lots of ways to learn.

Cons

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3.0
Jul 22, 2026
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Pros

Great sales leadership, great sales team, lots of really good sales tools. The Sales teams and AM teams are really outstanding, as is the sales centric culture here. Sales leadership is proactive, sharp, and seems to adapt well.

Cons

Pay and benefits are... poor. In sales they can get away with it b/c the culture is so good but for other things, the company is really just cheap. they lose a lot of talent b/c they leave for average salaries - Cvent is below average. Sales training and enablement is a mess. It's a very reactive team, focused on checking the boxes. They talk a lot about moving fast, iterating... but things are very slow, get bottled up with leadership a lot. Leaders in this group are mixed. When they are focused and listening they can be good, they tend to fight for their people well. But they don't listen a lot, mostly they just push for the answer they wanted from the beginning, and b/c they are trying to go fast, they rarely slow down and look at the big picture. Then when there are bumps in the road or complaints later, they are suprised.

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