Pros
You get the opportunity to wear many hats, especially if you're recruited out of University for their management program. Great roles to build relationships with construction tradesman, specifically electricians.
Cons
There is a lot of bias and nepotism in the company. Relatives to management or salesmen with high-dollar accounts will be fast-tracked to higher positions in the company. This is definitely a company reliant on "who you know". The management trainee program that CED is known for pulls fresh candidates from local universities with zero electrical industry or management experience and pushes them thru all roles associated with the profit center within only months to gain experience. They are promised that they'll manage their own remote profit center after going through each role but most never make it to the end. The ones that make it to store manager usually manage a small profit center or two for a little while and then leave the industry. This company also uses Profit Sharing as a means for increasing pay rather than raising based income. If sales are down once Profit Sharing time rolls around, you can expect to receive a decreased profit share. my profit sharing rate before leaving the company was around 55% base pay, 45% profit sharing (PS paid out at one time).
