BEWARE: Their "Awesome Culture" will be used to underpay and over work you - Customer Success Specialist Cvent Employee Review

1.0
Jul 2, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

When you walk into the building, you can't help but think "wow this place is awesome". It has a very young culture with ping pong tables, open floor concept, beers on tap, and the "work hard play hard" mentality. You can get experience here and get a title... to which you can take and go somewhere else.

Cons

Literally everything. When I first started the CEO came in and bragged about how they would never have to lay anyone off because of how he has set everything up. It was like his GO TO pitch. Well 2020 happened and he laid off 10% of his work force. I was not not laid off with them, but this just goes to show the kind of mentality that this guy has. Over pompous and a liar. New to the work force or tech world? Well congratulations, if you work here you are locked into a 2 year contract, meaning that they take 6 months to train you, and since you are not doing any work, they are loaning you that money to get trained, so if you leave before that 2 years, you owe them the remainder of that money. But here is the catch, starting off new, you are lucky if they pay you more than 50k a year. Raises and bonuses? They give a raise once a year, but will give promotions twice a year. So let's say you you get promoted in June, your pay won't get bumped up until the following March. In addition, they use a tiered pay system, so it really depends on your title and the number of years that you work there. You could get promoted to a senior, but get the same pay raise as someone who has not gotten promoted. Do you like have managers that think they are sorority/fraternity heads? Well if so, this is the place for you! If you work in CX you have an hourly pay that equals out to a salary. So if you ever move to a position where you are now salary, 99.9% sure you will work more and not make as much. Recruiting will lure you in in ANY ways that they can. I also know former recruiters from Cvent, why do they have a 3.7 on Glassdoor? Their recruiting team will make multiple emails to boost their ratings. Focus on the bad ones if you are looking for an honest review.

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5.0
Mar 2, 2026
Recommend
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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
Recommend
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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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