CDW reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(4,630 total reviews)
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Christine Leahy

61% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

CDW has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 4,630 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CDW employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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5K reviews
2.0
May 28, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

CDW loves to hire new talent. It is a great job to gain lots of knowledge of the industry and get your foot in the door. At times the incentives from various vendors can be exciting. Given plenty of resources to get trained on every aspect of IT.

Cons

To begin, the pay is awful. In CDW, you have an opportunity to make lots of money but you need to be in the right vertical or market segment. Since it is so easy to get a job at CDW, the management has a tendency to treat the employees like high school students. They monitor your every move at times and have seen it get so extreme that it's caused people great anxiety. They don't utilize their employees to their full potential and focus everything on sales. When entering the position they tell you that you can easily move around in the company if sales is not your thing, but it's where you must start off. What they don't tell you is that you must be great at sales in order to move to one of the positions that better suits you.

4.0
May 27, 2010

General Review

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good people to work with, at least in the department I am in. The company seems to value your work/life balance. Also, I thought that for the people I worked for, they did a good job of pushing your professional development.

Cons

For the most part, I don't have anything too negative to say. It's a good company to work for as a whole. If there's one thing I could change though, it's that certain departments are not maximizing their potential. CDW is a large company with a large customer base that can be tapped into but I don't think certain service areas are doing it well enough.

4.0
May 24, 2010

good place to start out of college

Anonymous employee
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Pros

good atmosphere - lots of young kids right out of college benefits are better than most places right out of school great training program... 6 weeks intensive training, 6 months of continued training (4ish hours a week) you actually make commission on all of your sales (but you still make practically nothing unless you sell a ton)

Cons

the base salary is a joke - 25k... its kind of a slap in the face too many product areas to be familiar with

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