Best of the best in the IT industry - Anonymous employee CDW Employee Review

4.0
Sep 13, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

CDW offers great benefits and a supportive environment that promotes personal health and work-life balance. Depending on the position, CDW is a great place for new college grads to build their career and is also a great place for individuals with experience but maybe not the education level that most other companies require. Although CDW encourages its employees to further their education, it is not a deal breaker when applying for an initial role at the company or when going for a promotion. CDW respects both education and experience.

Cons

One of the only cons to working at CDW is the compensation for non-sales roles. The compensation plans are inflexible and in some cases, not competitive within our industry. This can limit CDW’s candidate pool for specific roles. In addition, it may cause some employees to look outside the organization. Although this is one negative aspect to working at CDW, their benefits, culture, and career development opportunities do help offset the compensation.

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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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