Great first programming job out of college. - Software Engineer Cvent Employee Review

5.0
May 14, 2014
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Pros

Cvent has been a great start for my programming career. There are experienced programmers that have been good mentors for me, many of them are helpful and patient and the company encourages the collaboration. There are also programmers that have just started their career like me, so I've gotten to learn alongside my peers and train them on occasion too. The culture is good. The technology group in the company is very relaxed about dress code (jeans and t-shirt are the norm). I haven't met any big egos or programmers that are very territorial about their code. People are generally happy to help you. I'm friends with many of my co-workers and its normal to hang out after work together. The workplace is well run and efficient. I've seen multiple processes change over the one year that I have worked here, and they didn't change because someone in upper management hear about scrum for the first time. Most of the changes have been driven by bottom up feedback. I trust my managers and project leaders, and when I give them feedback I know they are listening and often implementing my suggestions. The work is interesting and engaging. Event management itself isn't a fascinating subject, but the programming and mental challenges that I face on a daily basis easily make up for it. I've rarely ever felt bored and underutilized. The company is doing well. Since its a growing company they haven't been stingy about pay and raises. There is an office in India, and its not difficult for regular employees to get a heavily subsidized trip to India (travel expenses covered, daily stipend for food, corporate housing, corporate driver). If you don't care about going to India then this might count as a con for you.

Cons

Work life balance is tilted heavily towards 'work' for most of the developers. Its a 45 hour work week, which isn't too bad, but there is often a pressure to work longer hours. There is not a lot of vacation time or time off in general (two weeks of PTO a year), and the way PTO works is annoying. I know of other companies that base PTO off of the number of hours worked in a week, but cvent does it by the day. So if I have a week where I have asked to take Friday off, if I work for 45 hours Monday-Thursday I still have to use 8 hours of PTO on Friday. I tended to quickly burn through my PTO. The lack of vacation/sick time also doesn't help the work life balance.

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Pros

Great culture with lots of ways to learn.

Cons

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3.0
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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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