Solid company, good people, slow decision processes and uneven pay - Anonymous employee CDW Employee Review

4.0
Nov 2, 2012
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Strong focus on customer Sales focus actually helps our teams/customers Top executives are smart - good vision Services team has top quality people

Cons

Private equity impacts strategy - short-term focus on financials impacting longer-term view Too much centralized decision making A few backbone departments have questionable culture (IT, HR)

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Pros

You have the ability to sell full stack solutions, services and software.

Cons

I have worked at CDW for 10yrs and every single year they have changed the comp plan in a way that makes it harder for sellers to make money (constantly moving the goal post). Prior to 2020 CDW had little to no lay offs now it is happening every six months. They say the reasons is to reduce cost and improve efficiencies BUT as a company our sales continue to grow along with the C-levels pockets.

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