As a former senior engineer at CDW I can say without a doubt that the company is in serious trouble. I made six figures basically doing nothing because internal politics prevented me from receiving projects.
While it was great for a time, I realized my skills were degrading and jumped ship for another opportunity. Thanks CDW for the free money and certifications!😂😂
@ey maybe you pay sticker price for all your used cars too? overpaid, over-hyped and now we're all under water, please get that 2.5B back , we'll split it and set them free to be a first tier company again - watch out Accenture /s
@ex CDW paid $2.5B, therefore Sirius was a $2.5B company.
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Last time CDW was $2 billion was over 20+ years ago.
Who made out at Sirius when it was sold? They also played a part in the non integration.
@e5 *** $2B and it's a 2nd tier? Sirius was a 1st tier services company, and probably the best employer I ever had. The culture was like no other, the work was plentiful. Perhaps if CDW had treated it as a 1st tier service company CDW would be in better shape.
@e0 yeah but...you don't change your business model from product movers to consultants just by acquiring a small 2nd tier services company then not integrating it AT ALL!! CDW thought the magic of consulting would somehow rub off on the employees and everyone would be billing the big dollars (kinda like Bain & Mckinsey) and we'd all be rich, it just doesn't work that way. You have to have people who know how to be consultants and how to sell & execute those deals - this was not and is not CDW's area of expertise. We blew billions on a poor choice at a bad time in the industry then did absolutely nothing to integrate them. So we're stuck with 2 separate companies both suffering the bad management and no plan to fix it now
@e0
Agree. The fact leadership banked on "services" being the new strategy to increase business but made the process to engage engineers similar to doing your taxes tells you how great our brightest minds are at executing.
When sales gets compensated on invoices...why would they focus on things that'll take more steps/time over other available options in the CDW portfolio to offer. Once you get to an engineer...they're great and customers like the project outcomes but when it takes weeks via cases to get to the right people...it's not worth risking existing relationships.
This is what people are saying when they mentioned botched integration of acquisitions.
@db why so much salt for a past coworker sharing their experience? This was many experience during the acquisitions and integrations. Portfolios would group engineers on projects so each could bill their minimums while waiting for opportunities.
You can call it 'lazy' but if someone received training / certifications while waiting for a billable project, that's not lazy. If you're on a bench as a billable resource you're going to be let go eventually. OP is stating he left to protect himself.
If you take boxes off shelves and load them on trucks, that's a difference story. The legacy CDW coworkers don't seem to realize when a professional services portfolio over hires and loses on opportunities constantly, it's not the billable resources fault. All they can do is hope their practice gets work before they go through downsizing.