Pros
In reading other reviews of my company I decided to write my own. To anyone questioning if they should take a job offer from this organization, let me make it simple: DO IT! CDW is not simply a "springboard" into IT sales or any other role for that matter; it is a mansion with endless doors of opportunity. Sure, starting as an Account Manager may be difficult, stressful, and in some respects underpaying, but mark my words that if you put in your dues and simply perform at or beyond your expections (and I'm not talking sales #s, I'm talking effort), you WILL be noticed and you WILL be successful. Want to be the front-line liason between customer and vendor making upwards of $200K a year? Work hard and your time will come. Want to move to Marketing? build relationships with your vendors and you will have advocates to back you up. Interested in Management? Develop your sales skills, display leadership abilities beyond your peers, and you WILL be noticed. I grew tired of reading people's complaints of this organization's habits of "promoting by popularity and not experience," or "underpaid, work like slaves and make no money".....read reviews from ANY other job on glassdoor and you'll see the exact same complaints. What makes CDW DIFFERENT is the fact that its very culture enables self-starters and hard workers to indeed move where they want to be and make the kind of money they want and deserve. CDW coworkers, from Account Managers up to Senior VPs, treat each other with respect. Executives have an open-door policy and will answer any question you have for them. The company is culturally diverse, and career paths are outlined for those who wish to pursue them. Again, the same complaints you see over and over again can be said about pretty much every other corporation; CDW however stands a cut above the rest in terms of empowering its coworkers (CDW's term for employees) to always be striving for promotion, and getting them where they want to be...nothing comes easily, and you have to work hard to get there.
Cons
sometimes the different sales groups tend to compete with one another, be it inside vs. field executives or even managed services teams. We would all benefit from a more structured alignment of groups working together for a single goal....which I believe the VPs are already working on.
