CDW reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(4,618 total reviews)
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Christine Leahy

62% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

CDW has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,618 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CDW employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Feb 9, 2025
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Pros

Company invests in their people, by training and certifying them. Some of the coworkers are phenomenonal human beings who are always there to support and share their knowledge. Those people should be cherished, especially at this place, because without them there is no other reason to work at CDW. Good place to get exposure to various tech and clientele.

Cons

Overall, the company is incredibly mismanaged. Since my first day, many years ago, it has been non stop changes on top of changes, changes that take us in one direction, then another change that takes us in a direction completely different for no apparent reason. 3 rounds of layoffs in the last two years, which has really crumbled whatever was left of the culture. I personally don't have any trust in the capabilities of the leadership "team", and their 20 layers of management between the CEO and ordinary workers. They have unreasonable expectations of growth. I've seen the company set a goal to increase profits by an insane amount within a year, when the goal is missed by a percent or two, they'll create a round of layoffs. The lay off emails are just copies of the previous ones at this point. The company has no values, except for one, the almighty shareholder who will direct the actions that affect the whole company based on the stock price. Recently, anything coming from the upper management has been disappointing. Cutting PTO, reducing various benefits, layoffs, taking back the stock grant issued 3 years ago because they've missed their insane growth target. On top of all of that, the company underpays their employees by approximately 20% compared to the market average.

1.0
Nov 3, 2024

Weak leadership at the top

Recommend
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Pros

Decent benefits, had a lot of autonomy, good boss, but she had no power to implement her own strategy.

Cons

The CEO loves to call the employees "superpowers," but that rings hollow when she and the CFO lay people off every time they miss numbers, which is frequent. The excuses top management comes up with for not meeting expectations are always due to "external factors" like macro economic conditions, slow downs in customer spending, or unforseen economic headwinds. One earnings report 2 years ago they admitted they "didn't see this downturn coming." Isn't forecasting and knowing the industry part of the reason the top level of management is in place? The ability to blame everyone/everything else is what makes CDW's top leadership weak. They never blame themselves, ever, or say "we got it wrong, we need to be better" like a good manager would do. So, you end up with the employees taking the blame and paying the price and a stock price that has sunk recently from $260/share to $188/share. But, somehow the same team keeps managing this Company.

1.0
Jan 22, 2024

Utter Garbage

Anonymous employee
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Pros

It's a paycheck. That's all.

Cons

Management is full of unethical liars. They made up a quote, attributed it to me, then pushed it to Sales to push out to the public (LinkedIn, customer engagements, etc). They've cut my pay 3 times in the last two years through "restructuring" of our "bonus" program. I have no control over company sales, yet I get dinged by it. People are nice, but not the brightest in the industry. Too much old school "do you know who the F I am" BS mentality because this place is run by corrupt, uneducated children.

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