Good Culture, falls behind in compensation and flexibility - Sales Manager Assistant CDW Employee Review

3.0
Sep 26, 2019
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Pros

Good work culture within support segment tons of free food and collateral job was not very stressful and fairly easy to pick up Great entry level opportunities to IT/sales/data Sales support managers are generally good people/managers

Cons

-non-sales coworkers are second-class citizens -for temp-to-hires your employment does not officially start until you are hired directly. So if you are employed in a 3/6/12 month temp position regardless of how long you've been at the job, day 1 of your official CDW hire date you start with 0 vacation or sick hours. PTO is accrued at a rate of 6.66 vacay hrs a month, sick at 3.33 hrs a month so by keeping you temp-to-hire for 6 months you lose 1 full week of vacation vs. direct hire - a.k.a. try not to get hired as a contractor if you can help it. -pay is embarrassingly low, -benefits are poor - starts at 2 weeks vacation, doesn't increase until 4 years in -paternity leave starts at 1 day after 1 year of employment and caps at 3 days total -for a IT company with teams spread across multiple locations and the connectivity to support it the fact that remote work is frowned upon at best and completely denied at worst is absurd - change is incredibly slow

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5.0
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Pros

Pay overall is good compared to others.

Cons

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3.0
Jul 6, 2026
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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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