Great company to start at, but you better leave once you have ANY experience - Solution Architect CDW Employee Review

2.0
Mar 1, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The training you can get if you are motivated is amazing The work life balance is good if you are tenured great place to network

Cons

The salary is deplorable, they pillage their vendor partners for money for fruitless en devours and will only let ones in that contribute big marketing dollars get face time with sales Ever since MDP took over the culture has been turned inside out. most people are miserable and the atmosphere is toxic, only the extreme heavy hitters seem happy The company has lost the human element and everything is a portal or a SharePoint. most architects have antiquated hardware that wont run most configuration tools

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5.0
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Pros

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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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