A mediocre company to work for. - Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) Cvent Employee Review

2.0
Jun 9, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Free lunch, but quality and taste of food should be improved - Somewhat okayish colleagues - Decent pay, but it could be better

Cons

- Took more than 45 days to process FnF, HR and payroll department need to get a move on and handle their work responsibilities more diligently - Non-transparent management, but the management itself claims that they are very much transparent in any and every situation - Office politics is widespread and can get very vicious - Cab facility is not available for the most common shift (9 am-6 pm) - Only a few employees (the ones that are the champions of office politics) are recognized for the work that they do, and rest are ignored and so are their efforts - I worked in tech department, and the managers, TLs are not equipped (more like incompetent) to deal with complex situations, as long as everything is going according to them, then it's all good - Severe case of micro-management exists in this "prestigious" organization - The manager and TL that I had the "pleasure" to work with had a very annoying habit of mansplaining literally everything, one would hope that in this day and age a person should not have to deal with such idiocy-induced situations, but here we are *sigh* - HRs should stick to their own line of work rather than pestering employees of different departments in the name of "doing their work" - Assiged equipment is tolerable at best, as its not up to date and might I add that if you look close enough you can see discrimations taking place even when IT equipments are assigned

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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
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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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