No one stays that came after the IPO - Manager Cvent Employee Review

2.0
Jan 23, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Cool co-workers and not many weirdos. Nice office space and location near metro. Free coffee? I don't know, just trying to meet this 20 word minimum.

Cons

So many cons. A good bit of the marketing management seems to have come from Blackboard and they really don't have a clue. It often sounded like they just read marketing leadership blogs and dressed those ideas up as their vague direction. "Be a storyteller", for example. Thanks for that brilliance! Pay is poor. Only people who stay middle mgmt and above who were here before the IPO. They got a lot of options, and/or got grandfathered into high salaries and sales commission percentages. It's very true: most people look to leave after their two year bond. Everyone should know about he two year bond also. It is insane! You basically sign a blood oath saying you cannot quit within 2 years or they will try to threaten you with legal action. They really do it...I saw it happen multiple times. The craziest part is they say it costs $7500 to train you and that's why you can't leave but unless you are part of the sales team you receive zero official training. They brought someone in that tried to make every single position be held to meet several KPIs. Nothing like killing creativity in order to meet arbitrary metrics. Raises and bonuses went down every year. 9.5 hour work day minimum.

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Cons

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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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