You are blinded with all the amenities of the workplace, especially when you are young, and do not really realize how your profit is being nickel and dimed away from you.
The pay structure is terrible when you actually take a good hard look at it. You are payed on a trailing 3 month matrix. This means that you are responsible for having at least achieved an 80% sales goal for the entire total of the previous 3 months, otherwise you receive no commission for the current month. What this requires employees to do, at least the successful ones, is try and sandbag orders by spreading out their orders in order to cover themselves for the next 3 months. Also this means that one bad month can drag you down for the next 2 months after that. So a real life example is if your goal for the last 3 months in total was 600k and you only sold 479K because of one tough month that you had, you receive none of the commission on that 479k.
This place is really a coin flip on whether you will be successful or not. All the good accounts are being hoarded either by more senior AM's or by your manager, so basically you have to wait around for someone to quit, die, or until your manager has believed you to prove yourself. You will not find some hidden gem that no one is working, that truly is not possible. So if you get put on a very veteran team where no one is leaving any time soon, and your manager is hitting his sales goal through these workers, there is little to no chance you will ever be allowed to work anything of importance.
CDW is great for working with enterprise level facilities, but if you do not have accounts with 500 users and up, you will struggle to win deals because they are so overpriced on everything.
