Pros
Good only if homelessness is your only other option.
Cons
1) Software engineering sweat shop -- 45-hour minimum work but 50-60-hour weeks are not uncommon. 2) Cvent is cheap. They often pay way below market rate for various positions. Benefits are so-so. If you work in a satellite office and they wish to fly you to HQ, they will not pay extra to fly you out Sunday night so be at the airport Monday morning by 5 am to catch your flight. They sometimes will make you share a hotel room to save money. If you give notice they will not pay out or let you take accrued PTO if carried over from last year. They provide lousy monitors, underpowered computers, and torture devices disguised as office chairs. 3) A frighteningly incompetent middle management -- What type of employee would stay at a company that pays below market rate (see #1 and #2 ) and expects your first born? The type that can't find work anywhere else. This results in a number of truly useless individuals who've stayed at the company for years and rose to the ranks of middle management. 4) Command and control structure bolstered by title inflation -- if you think you're going to come to Cvent and enjoy a collaborative environment where ideas and designs are chosen on their technical merit and you have the ability to make a difference -- think again! This is a place where if someone cannot justify their bad idea rank will be pulled. And there is a lot of rank -- titles and promotions are handed out like candy to those employees who are connected. Middle management types mentioned in #3 love this arrangement. 5) Scrum used as a weapon -- this place obsessives over scrum points, burn-down charts, and KPIs. Delivered code comes second. 6) Terrible code base drowning in technical debt -- as mentioned in at least one other Glassdoor review, Cvent's core codebase is laughably bad. I don't think anyone at the company has ever taken a software engineering course or read Code Complete. Cvent has dozens of Architects, Senior Architects, Senior Principle Architects (see #4) but apparently, they do very little architecting. 7) Equally bad infrastructure -- in the fall of '16 a single hard drive failure took down the company's entire internal infrastructure. Approximately 1200 employees couldn't get any work done for 5 hours. I guess they've never heard of RAID or hot-swappable. Incidents like these make sense when you read the Forbes article with the Cvent CEO saying "Cheap is the new religion". 8) Mandatory IQ/personality tests for existing employees -- this one speaks for itself. Employees who refused the test were told they'd be fired. Management claims the test was for establishing a baseline for future hires and would not affect existing employees. I'd like to believe this but why did they ask employees to sign their names on the test? 9) Recently bought by Vista Equity -- do some googling and you'll find out what happens to companies that have been bought/gutted by Vista Equity. It's not pretty. 10) In a nutshell this company has no culture, no work/life balance, very little integrity, and limited career opportunities unless you thrive in a Machiavellian environment.