Great place to start, but not to stay - Consulting Engineer CDW Employee Review

3.0
Oct 16, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

CDW is a great place for people to change careers and get started in IT. The ACE program offers great training and learning opportunities. You gain a lot of valuable experience in a short amount of time.

Cons

- Pay is way below market rate - CDW's sales model is broken. Sellers have a hard time selling services and many projects are poorly scoped. - Your manager is powerless to help you. Too many levels of approval to get things done. - CDW cares more about hiring and appeasing outside hires versus their homegrown talent. - Projects are very repetitive and offer little in terms of change of pace.

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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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