CDW Software Solution Advisor reviews

work trips, age gaps, arent great

The people who get promoted to management positions and beyond are white men a vast majority of the time. Their idea of "diverse" (hire, promotion) is often satisfied by a white woman. The Cherry Hill NJ office specifically is notorious for transphobic, sexist, and racist behaviors. I have seen black people get passed up for promotion when they had done all the work and "extracurriculars" that CDW requires (these are projects outside of your job that you do which you do not get compensated for but for which you are held responsible, and the number of extracurriculars required grows every year). I have seen a white man who harassed his female coworkers and went to strip clubs on working trips be promoted. I have witnessed a manager allow/encourage sexist remarks and behaviors and, when I reported him to Coworker Services, nothing happened except I found out that he had been promoted to a higher management position 2 months later. Transphobia is so bad that I know of two people who ended up leaving and neither even came out as trans because they were physically afraid of what their coworkers would do. The company touts being LGBTQIA+ friendly and supportive and, despite a growing non-binary population, continues to use gendered bathrooms in offices. After the 2016 Presidential election, several white men paraded through the office chanting "Build that wall!" and were never silenced nor had any repercussions. These same men were reported a few years later for sexist and transphobic behavior and are still working at the company, seen as great salespeople, and at least one is on track for a management position. There were also a lot of "Me Too" jokes made by men in positions of authority. Someone revered in the company was doing a training and in it, he made a joke about the "Me Too" movement. When I called him out, he laughed and made another joke about it (the movement) being when his wife would get mad at him for not doing house chores. I was then silenced by the man next to me telling me that it was just a joke, lighten up. I've worked on the DEI Coalition, hell I was in the pilot program and was one of the first volunteers for it. It started well-intentioned but the more it progressed the more it hit a wall of being a "box ticked" that the company can hide behind. And even at the outset, ~80% of us were white compared to the other ~20% who were BIPOC. It’s pretty clear that the person who started the DEI Coalition and put his heart and soul into it has been hampered greatly (to say the least) by corporate politics and hierarchy within the company. I went through almost a year of trying to get $1500 (split across 3 events in which CDW would be featured) for a non-profit that supports LGBTQIA youth/young adults in sex education as well as career preparation. I kept getting denied at every level because it wasn't tech-related (a requirement that was at the national level and then recently applied at the local office level). As far as I am aware, there is no specific budget for DEI Coalition events across the nation. It's been in place for about 2 years now and the company has recently determined that the funds for it are to come out of the Director of Small Business's discretionary budget. We are expected to think creatively to make sure that we can make a difference without spending any of CDW's money. To put that in perspective, CDW made over 20 Billion in 2021 and is trending to make more this year (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220209005112/en/CDW-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2021-Earnings). As for the LGBTQIA+ business resource group (BRAVE), there is a small budget for Pride month in June, and nothing else throughout the year (unless it is a big event like the Human Rights Campaign or to display our connection with Out in Tech, and even then the money put into it is minor). All of this is messed up, and what's even sadder is that the company touts that they are progressive, that their values don't align at all with this behavior, and yet it keeps happening. And the people who do it keep getting promoted. And the people who are getting hired are under the pretense that this company puts its money behind its STATED values, and end up getting bitterly disappointed. I've reached out to Coworker Services about these issues and told my manager about other issues I haven't even mentioned. I've been with the company for almost 5 years and I'm tired. I've poured a lot into trying to make a positive difference and at this point, I feel like staying is just me being part of the problem. I've run out of excuses to work for a company that is subjecting people to this kind of abuse.