Avoid this place - Software Engineer II Cvent Employee Review

1.0
Aug 23, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Variety in tech stack, not much else

Cons

- Low low pay, they research market rates and purposely undercut. - From the above, they tend to hire fresh college graduates who do not know better. - Newly hired college graduates were making as much as our best senior engineers (in a bad way.) - management does not care about work/life balance. They will seriously work you to the bone. - they almost made the Texas employees use vacation time during the 2021 snow storm that knocked out the power in Texas. And almost made them work the weekend to make up for lost time! - most of the code is garbage and it's hard to get any meaningful work done because of legacy code written years ago. Make one change here, break 5 things somewhere else. - don't expect any meaningful raises (which only come once a year, promotions twice a year. Do not believe them if they tell you otherwise, many coworkers were lied to when first hired.) - performance is based on number of commits. They only look at metrics using some software that keeps track of commits, time between commits, size if commits, etc. You are seriously reduced down to how many and how big your yellow dots are on their graphs. - Attrition is a big problem

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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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