Too good to be true - Sales Development Representative Cvent Employee Review

1.0
May 29, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Cool office, mostly smart and driven coworkers, free coffee, free lunch on occasion, pretty people, product/services can be very good and useful for the right prospects/clients

Cons

Almost all managers/upper level execs are toxic, a cult-like environment, lead trainer hasn’t sold a cent of Cvent in over 10 years and the platform has completely changed since then, Cvent is growing fast but not adapting fast enough, poor job at lead distribution across reps leads to unfair and unequal opportunities for success, limited professional development/promotions due to that inequality If you leave or quit before 18 months, you will have agreed to when hired to pay back a loan for the first 4 weeks of “world class/industry leading training” (every saas company claims this, the training was not sufficient and rather ineffective). This can be thousands of dollars, and they make it worse if you quit within 12 months. They say this is because as a start-up, new hires would go through the training and quit to leave for a more well established company. However, Cvent is now the global/industry/worldwide/well established leader in meetings and event technology and yet they continue to prey on recent college graduates with this loan... so slimy

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5.0
Apr 11, 2026
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Pros

Great culture with lots of ways to learn.

Cons

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3.0
Jul 22, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great sales leadership, great sales team, lots of really good sales tools. The Sales teams and AM teams are really outstanding, as is the sales centric culture here. Sales leadership is proactive, sharp, and seems to adapt well.

Cons

Pay and benefits are... poor. In sales they can get away with it b/c the culture is so good but for other things, the company is really just cheap. they lose a lot of talent b/c they leave for average salaries - Cvent is below average. Sales training and enablement is a mess. It's a very reactive team, focused on checking the boxes. They talk a lot about moving fast, iterating... but things are very slow, get bottled up with leadership a lot. Leaders in this group are mixed. When they are focused and listening they can be good, they tend to fight for their people well. But they don't listen a lot, mostly they just push for the answer they wanted from the beginning, and b/c they are trying to go fast, they rarely slow down and look at the big picture. Then when there are bumps in the road or complaints later, they are suprised.

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