CDI Reviews

Current Employee – been working at CDI full-time

Pros – -They often promote from within.
-The designer life is similar to owning your own business except someone else foots the advertising and accounting bills.

Cons – -For those who get health insurance, it is crazy expensive.
-The impetence for continuous change comes from the channels and is a lot to handle.

Advice to Senior Management – It seems to me, that the departments don't have enough incentive to work together. What might make one department be deemed successful might raise a bar too high for the next department to be able to keep up with.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at CDI full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Very knowledgable and a great group of co-workers. The contract of the top executive is up at the end of the 2013.

Cons – I have been with this company for 5 years. Here is a history of the merit increase for the corporate staff over my tenure: Year one a 3% increase; year two a 2.5% reduction (but were were given an extra week vacation to offset the reduction), year three no merit increase, year four a 2.5% increase then a one week furlough, year five (2013) no merit increases. But I should consider myself lucky as I only received a one week furlough. Some corporate employee were forced to take two or three weeks of furlough over this same time period. Overall, my take home pay has decreased from day one due to a significant increase in the employees share of the health benefits and what I detailed above.

Advice to Senior Management – There is no "I" in team. You should take a pay cut like the rest of the worker bees. This would help promote the companies "One CDI" slogan.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at CDI full-time

Pros – Work Life Balance-flexible schedule. Days off and vactions holidays offered

Cons – They laid off many people in the company , then dumped all the extra work on the other teams with no pay raise and no career advancement. Plus the stress is extremely high level and if you do get a raise it is extremely low percentage. Management does not always understand the work that the worker bees are doing.

Advice to Senior Management – Offer more career advancement opportunities, better salary increases. Understand that most people want to move up in pay grade and their career not just sit still.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at CDI full-time

Pros – The office I worked in was top notch - we truly were a team.
They are a solid and experienced Staffing Organization.
Dirk Dent - one of the most humble leaders there - he has been through all of the organizational changes and still remains.

Cons – CDI was in flux. They were trying to move to a Solutions based IT organization but still approached things from a staffing perspective.
They didn't have the experience to support what they wanted their Sales people to bring to market.
they were more concerned about their metrics than how relationships were developed and maintained.
A lot of turnover after Paulette took the helm.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat your employees like Assets not inventory.
Learn to work as a team - not in Silos - where those at the V/C-level believe they are better than the rest of the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at CDI

Pros – Nice people, fast paced at times.

Cons – Sometimes there is a disconnect with others since they are in different groups, and yet work on the same projects.

Current Employee – been working at CDI full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Weekly Pay. No complicated management issues.

Cons – No upward mobility as a contractor.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at CDI full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good Starting Salary and they promise the world.

Cons – Never follow through on promises, management is very disorganized. Will do everything in their power to not pay bonuses. Employees have been required to take 1 week furloughs for 3 consecutive years. Treat Contractors terrible, very expensive benefits, poor vacation plan, and will drop them on a dime.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at CDI full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good people who really deserve so much better. Pay is honestly reasonable but once you go temp it will be tough to get considered for a regular full time position. There is a very, very small chance that you may get hired at the company you are being sold too (but not really because the internal employees consider you a leach that is sucking the lifeblood out of their job security). Whatever you do, you had better not let anyone see you have a brain because that will scare the hell out of the inbred employees at that company that starts with B and ends with oeing. Once that happens they will complain incessantly until you are gone because they know you are good and cheap which is a horrible combination for an overpaid employee that is worthless.

Cons – This company is a worthless scag of junk that is sucking of the lifeblood of America. At first (for Boeing managers) it seems like a good idea. Sell off our junk work for 50 bucks an hour and save 100 bucks per hour off our in house costs. But then you start to realize that is costing your employees hundreds of hours checking their work and preparing work packages for nothing. Work comes back half done and what is done is so low quality a monkee could have done a better job. Worst of all they have a management that never even comes to work. When you finally add it up and find out that billions of dollars a year are being fed to these scags to do meaningless work that you have to spend time to invent. That's when you see how badly companies like CDI destroy the companies they scavenge off of and even more how they are destroying the American economy. Theft is illegal for poor people, why isn't it illegal for fat, worthless companies.

Advice to Senior Management – Start offering services of VALUE

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at CDI full-time for more than a year

Pros – Compensation was great for the area.

Cons – Benefits are expensive for a family.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at CDI full-time for less than a year

Pros – Compensation - they need to pay well, as that's the only way that they can keep people for as long as they do.

Cons – Everything else - I was part of the operations team for the Chicago branch (which, I hear, has recently been closed and everyone laid off), and it was a daily struggle to merely come into the office. The Sales Manager was a walking Successory that had no substance whatsoever and would resort to threats and political back-stabbing if he were ever questioned. Most of the Sales team was great, and they tried hard, but had such little support, it was a losing battle. The consultants were treated terribly and were ALWAYS fired as soon as they weren't billable. There were also consistent issues with paychecks and/or bonuses not being right.

Advice to Senior Management – The local Chicago management has all been fired and they also got rid of many of the Executives from when I was there. It's a good start.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company