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      CDW

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      CDW reviews

      3.5

      62% would recommend to a friend

      (4,633 total reviews)
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      Christine Leahy

      61% approve of CEO

      46% positive business outlook

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      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Compensation and benefits

      3.0

      Senior management

      CDW has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,633 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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      5K reviews
      3.0
      Feb 14, 2012

      Six years and back at square one

      Account manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      CDW offers great benefits and a company you can be proud to say you work for. If you work hard and build solid relationships with field resources you can make a very good living.

      Cons

      The company has moved more towards micro management in the past few years. Management went from being sales focused to more babysitter role. Account protection has always been an issue for the past 6 years and at a moments notice they can take an account(s) away with nothing in return. That hurts when you dedicate several years worth of work growing and developing accounts to finally reap the financial reward. Management plays favorites. Advancement through the ranks is very difficult.

      3.0
      Feb 12, 2012

      Above Average

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Work from home and not pushy for results...

      Cons

      Not reasonable in making critical decisions

      3.0
      Jan 26, 2012

      Steep learning curve.

      Account manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It is a fun laid back atmosphere. You are typically not micromanaged. There is a chance to make a lot of money if you are in the correct segment, like healthcare, MedLar. HIED and K12, not so much. They have great benefits, decent vacation time, and promote having fun at work. They offer a lot of high level technical training, but unless you are already a techno/computer geek, many of the things you sell will be way over your head. They provode a great engineering/architect group to back you up, but it is often very hard to get on their schedules quickly.

      Cons

      Commission structure is terrible. If you have one bad month or are in a cyclical segement, you may not receive a commission check for several months until you get your average back up. They also take 20% of your spiffs despite charging vendors to even run the spiff. No printer spiffs if you don't sell toner. If you customer is under contract to get toner cheaper somewhere else, you are out of luck. Sales goal are huge, and will change in the middle of the month. I am writing this in late January and I still don't have my sales goal from January, or the rest of the year. Upper management pretends they are interested in listening to your ideas on how to make more money, but they are really not. I spoke with the CEO and Sr. VP's about our international business and us missing out on $30M in business. Their response was to eliminate all international shipping which gave me a 30% pay cut. If you are technical and get an engineering job, great place to work. If you are in sales, it is a great place to learn to sell, but only 20% will make it. They are constantly hiring because of the high turn over.

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