Pros
- Good comradery; you'll make long-term friends - Heavily recruit new college graduates, gives an opportunity to those without prior work experience - Removed their 2 year binding agreement (which wasn't binding to start with)
Cons
Most of the positive reviews I've read here are hilarious. They sound like something straight out of one of our "motivational" meetings. The reality is that the Cvent business model is still heavily reliant on underpaying young professionals and motivating individuals with ridiculous rhetoric rather than actual benefits. Sadly, a lot of the hires are extremely inexperienced and accept bullying behavior from managers and a lack of resources as normal. In all fairness though, you will be encouraged to offer your opinions on how to improve processes. Unfortunately, it seems managers only ask for this input so they can "objection-handle" you and prove that everything works fine. A manager once LITERALLY used the phrase "This is just how it's done" in an email to justify a process that was completely inefficient. The sales and marketing team at Cvent has HUGE turnover problems. What ultimately ends up happening is that talent gets fed up of trying to improve things and leaves, while the incompetent stay and rise in the ranks. In my experience, a rather representative example of the problems at Cvent was compensation incentives. When a team was successful and consistently exceeded quota through hard work and extra hours, you know how they were compensated? Their quota was increased, but their pay was kept the same. In other words, for every dollar they brought into the company, they now made less for it. If you can't get another job out of college, start at Cvent. Otherwise, you might want to look at other options.