Low Pay, Worst HR, Inexperienced Management - Scrum Master Cvent Employee Review

2.0
Dec 2, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Fun culture and the people you work with are easy to get along with.

Cons

- Lowest pay out there. Cvent is adept at hiring young professionals and signing them on with salaries that are never remotely close to the industry standard. Raises internally are a joke even if you are highly rated in your performance reviews. - HR is demeaning and will talk down to you when you try to negotiate pay. They won't look into metrics you share of what other companies are paying and will diminish your value even though they say they're not trying to discount your worth. I cannot emphasize this enough- in no way will you ever be paid your worth at Cvent. - Management is not equipped to manage. A big part of Cvent is that people are solely promoted to management based on their tenure there and are not properly trained or coached to actually manage people effectively. - Onboarding and training is almost nonexistent here. Very few teams have an appropriately structured onboarding program that sets employees up for success. Managers will openly acknowledge this sink or swim expectation as just part of the company culture. It's amazing that the high turnover hasn't pushed them to invest real time into training.

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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
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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