…and it was a mess from day one of the merger. It took over 2 years to integrate the teams which is insanely incompetent. During that time they decided they would cancel our 5% bonus, and converted 10% of our salary to bonus, which was effectively a pay cut, given the fact that bonuses are taxed at a higher rate. Suddenly my paychecks were $100 lighter. So much for CDW being a great place to work.
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The integration issues are the responsibility of the executive leadership at CDW.
They created an incompetent IMO with leadership that had never integrated anything, didn’t have a plan, and directed a bunch of endless work that didn’t end with an integration. Next time, bring leaders who know what they are doing and have a plan! Prior experience!
Leadership doesn’t make decisions on a clear path and won’t hold people accountable for building a plan and sticking to it.
Sirius had very well developed and advanced infrastructure and processes, far more advanced than CDW.
Leadership couldn’t figure out what direction they wanted to integrate towards, so there were four “integrations” trying to do the same thing with an end result of keeping status quo until CDW could build a platform advanced enough to bring Sirius in and CDW forward.
While integrations are always a bit messy, this was extra special messy.
If in 2024 your auto-signature in your CDW email has a company logo other than CDW's, you are part of the problem. Noticing today how many Coworkers have a big Sirius logo in their autosig (yes, it says in small writing under it "A CDW Company" but I don't understand why they are holding onto the past so tightly.
We need to all unify under CDW and work together to take care of our customers and produce great results. Tribalism (on either side) is not productive.
This is a fair warning to all new acquisitions. And all of the strong leaders from those acquisitions are gone.
And that's the problem - it's "not even close" after 3 years.
You make it sound like the integration of Sirius into CDW is complete. It's not. Not even close.
CDW Legacy.......lol, $100 per paycheck less....I've literally lost tens of thousands of dollars a year on spiffs alone with this new structure they put in place after all these acquisitions, since vendors don't know who to spiff anymore.
Not to mention having national services as part of my goal, which when calculated out, I can only influence to the tune of .02 % of with my coverage , despite being over 100% for the year for my area with services, I have to take a hit when we as a company are below 100% for the year.....so yeah, sorry for your loss OP.
And yes I'm actively looking. Out.
If you got paid 20-30% less and stayed then you’re an id--t.
In an acquisition the employees are owned? Which coal mine do you work for? Clown.
This messaging is one of the problems (created by poor or deliberate miscommunications by both companies executives) CDW acquired Sirius, this was not a merger, it was a buyout and acquisition. When Sirius employees are told "merger" they tend to believe that they are joining another company as an equal partner and expecting to have a seat at the policy, sales and strategy tables. Not the way it works in an acquisition - you are purchased and are owned (assets, liabilities, people, IP, etc.) and are kept at the buyer (CDW's) discretion. CDW has no obligation to obtain permissions to make changes or enforce existing policies yet the messages are so distorted around integrating and go forward plans that Sirius people have been led to believe they get to vote or have opinions on how CDW runs the business and then get upset when that's not the reality. Not the fault of employees but 100% on CDW management and poor integration planning and execution. Maybe a good time to bring in professional integration experts to do a real integration and get everyone on the same page. Not everyone wants to be part of an acquisition (from both sides) but that's why we have the ability to go someplace else where we get to choose who we work with.
Legacy CDW here.
When they added Sirius, they put a bunch of Sirius folks on our team who did not contribute, got paid more than us, and we had to share SPIFFs with them. Then CDW added a massive national services goal that we could not affect, and the net result is us getting paid 20-30% less. Your loss off $100 is meaningless as compared to what happened to CDW folks. We were all better off as two separate companies.