Beat Street - Anonymous employee CDW Employee Review

1.0
May 6, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Entry level sales that will get you used to cold calling. You can get the job right out of college or high school without any previous sales experience.

Cons

Base salary is very low and comission structure does not reward you until you've been here for atleast 3 years - even then you will have to be selling millions of dollars worth of stuff to break the 80K range

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Pros

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

Cons

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