Cmeh - UX Designer Cvent Employee Review

3.0
Feb 2, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Friendly people. Most people are easy to work with in Tech Dept. Low stress usually, but this can depend on your team and projects. Company is basically unchallenged in the event management space and grew nonstop for years.

Cons

UX within products was neglected for a long time. Products do actually work but are hard to use for the average person. Extensive training is required. Eventually senior management realized they needed to focus on UX. Sadly the UX leaders they brought in are mostly faking it. These people must think they hit the jackpot to come to Cvent just to BS in meetings all day without presenting a new vision or really any tangible expertise. The user research team jumped ship after a researcher was scapegoated and fired. The content team has a reputation for not understanding what they’re working on and needing their hands held. The design team is by far the biggest team in UX. Some designers are good, some are not, but this may or may not be reflected in their titles. If you don’t know your worth, you will be underpaid. They generally target recent college grads who don’t know what’s fair or normal. As with any company, Cvent is not a family, no matter what they tell you.

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Pros

Great culture with lots of ways to learn.

Cons

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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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