Cvent Interview Questions
& Process

It kicked off with a phone call with the recruiter, followed by a video chat with the hiring manager. A bit later, they wanted me to come in for a 2.5-hour in-person interview with three different people, scheduled for three weeks out because the holidays were approaching. I went to the interview and was told I'd hear back within a week or two about a potential final interview. A week passed, so I followed up and was told the team hadn't met yet but would get back to me by the end of the next week. That week ended, and I still didn't hear back, so I followed up again, and got basically the same response. Long story short, I NEVER heard back. It's cool if they chose someone else or paused the job, but ghosting candidates after multiple interviews is super rude and not professional. I wouldn't suggest applying here since their interview process lacks integrity.

My interview experience at Cvent's Bangalore office was quite disappointing, despite Cvent Gurgaon generally being a good place to work. The process involved three rounds. Round 1 was an online interview, which was okay. They asked some basic Ruby on Rails coding questions, like checking for anagrams, and a simple SQL question about employees and departments. Nothing too out of the ordinary. Round 2 was an onsite interview, and they insisted I travel to the Bangalore office at my own expense. This round was with an architect. He asked a very basic coding question and then asked me to explain the architecture of a past project. The issue wasn't the question itself, but how it was evaluated. Instead of focusing on how the system scales, traffic handling, data flow, or trade-offs, he just kept judging my previous company's architecture, taking notes, and not really exploring my thought process, decisions, or problem-solving skills. This felt unfair. An interview should really assess how a candidate thinks, designs systems, and approaches scalability and constraints. If they wanted a system design discussion, they should have provided a new problem rather than evaluating past decisions made under different organizational constraints. So, if you live far from Bangalore, I wouldn't suggest making the trip for their interviews, as the onsite experience didn't seem worth it.

I went through a bunch of interviews for a manager job, like 5 or more with different people, including the recruiter, hiring manager, team manager, and people I’d work with. Most of them seemed nice enough, but the team manager interview felt kinda weird. She was distracted by Slack messages and the conversation was all over the place and too casual sometimes. They said the role was about growth, but I didn’t get a clear picture of the long-term plan or what the job would really be like. After all that, they sent me a super long questionnaire that asked the same stuff we’d already talked about and wanted details about my current company that felt like private info. I was kinda taken aback by how much they were asking for. With the long process, the weird requests, and the inconsistent interviews, I decided to back out and look elsewhere.

The Cvent on-campus interview process included an initial round with aptitude, coding, OOPS, and DBMS questions (easy level). This was followed by a second round with one coding question (medium level). Round 3 was an interview round focused on coding questions, general DSA theory, and puzzles. Round 4 was another interview round. Finally, Round 5 was an HR round. After these rounds, we wait for the results.