Pros
Enforcing work/life boundaries is not frowned upon Good base pay / regular pay increases Employee retention is high; Experienced engineers in every silo as a result High autonomy in my role
Cons
-Poor bonus structure for engineers which was changed prior to COVID, has resulted in large swaths of billable resources not able to hit bonus which was usually a given, resulting in ~25% loss of wages for most engineers; Management has indicated this will not change short-term and so competitive compensation at CDW has slipped dramatically Poor stock options - After being here 10+ years I have only ever received stock grants that are less than a single paycheck and vest after 3 years; Yet company has money to make billion-dollar acquisitions on the regular. Disconnect between upper management and teams - Upper management has a lot of good ideas, but these ideas and changes are made with no real world input from engineering, or players at the team/individual contributor level, resulting in poor execution of good-on-paper-only ideas Horrible lower management: Managers routinely act in ways that make most question how they got the role. One manager in particular went AWOL for over a year and came back with zero knowledge on how to perform their role/was not replaced by management. Resulting team went from one of the highest grossing teams year over year in the company to one of the worst, with little to no care expressed by upper management. -High retention also leads to a significant amount of ageism between younger coworkers and older employees who have been around for 15+ years. Many of the experienced engineers are on autopilot/not open to change and the apathy is real. Young engineers are routinely shut down when making positive suggestions "because this is the way we have always done it". -Sales driven company: Sales can do no wrong, and often sell things that don't exist or make huge omissions in project scoping. Engineering is expected to deal with it and clean up the mess, causing engineers to perform pre-sales work not in their job description on a regular basis. Any attempt to mend the process or attempt at bringing attention to glaring omissions is frowned upon. -Low mobility opportunities: Changing teams is often pre-determined / given to favorites without opening positions to the general population of engineers.