Consistently Rated as a Great Place to Work - Senior Manager CDW Employee Review

4.0
Mar 29, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Great people, great DEI focus and engagement, competitive pay, good benefits, Middle management and individual contributor culture is strong with customer focus and employee engagement. Pay for performance enables significant compensation in the sales and services organizations. CEO Chris Leahy is incredibly authentic and inspiring in her company wide communications.

Cons

Executive leadership models the culture of customer focus and employee engagement on paper with a primary focus on financials and strategy that impact investor relations. High emphasis on quarterly metrics and the impact to the books. Company is currently going through a transition of integrating the 10 acquisitions made in the last 5 years, along with a few legacy acquisitions, and aligning roles and responsibilities. There have been noticeable waves of workforce reductions and long tenured employees moving on. Additionally, company is working through modernizing their technology stack. Stark division in perks between the customer facing sales and services team and the back of house administrative and operational teams. Entrepreneurial focused teams do well for themselves, incentivized to making decisions leveraging channel partner programs that benefit them sometimes at the expense of the overall organization. Teams that generate direct revenue seem to spend with abandon while cost centers focus on every penny.

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5.0
Jul 15, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
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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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