Good for gaining experience, but not much else. - Account Manager CDW Employee Review

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.

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5.0
Apr 19, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good exposure to enterprise systems and tools, supportive team environment, opportunities to learn and grow, collaborative culture, flexible work environment

Cons

Limited ownership in some projects, slower career progression, processes can be bureaucratic at times, communication gaps between teams occasionally

3.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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