Sherwin-Williams Reviews

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

Pros – Great company for advancements. Great pay

Cons – bonus are only for management. Everyone should benefit from the success of the store. dont have a very good program when it comes to moving up unless you are in the management training program which are recruited if you have a degree.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Sherwin-Williams

Pros – Upper management really cares about the right things and does a good job of growing the company and business. Everyone in the organization is very approachable. From the sales clerks to the CEO. Stock keeps going up, and the company has great retirement plans.

Cons – It is easy to earn more elsewhere which makes stability in some positions an issue.

Advice to Senior Management – I have none. I can't imagine the many decisions they have to make. From my perspective they seem to be making them quite well.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Sherwin-Williams for more than 8 years

Pros – Financial powerhouse, stable, reliable, great senior management, huge talent pool, great work life balance, advancement opportunities available with relocation

Cons – lack of ability to be creative, no a lot of decision making ability, lots and lots of structure, more focused on how you look than what you have to say.. .. not competitive base salaries...

Advice to Senior Management – Find ways to let your employees make more decision, loosen up on the controls and trust your managers

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Sherwin-Williams as an intern

Pros – Not difficult work, clearly structured path. MTP program starts at over 36/yr, growth is a quick possibility. reliable company with much job security

Cons – Many employees seemed defeated. Many hours in a physically demanding workplace can easily cause stress under the wrong manager. Easy to get overwhelmed and be negative about the future.

Advice to Senior Management – Spend more time interacting with and meeting the needs of low level employees- sales reps often demand too much of the store

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Sherwin-Williams part-time for less than a year

Pros – ok... 11 22 ok hours

Cons – store management is weak on all levels from district mgr level

Advice to Senior Management – work with troops

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Sherwin-Williams full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great training and management/support. You are given all the tools needed to win and sell/earn bonus money. If you work hard and do what is asked, you can make some good money.

Cons – Lousy hours. Very much retail hours. Managers often work weekends. Not a good quality of life. All stores are short staffed, could all use an extra employee. Company is starved for diversity and promotes minorities/woman even if they aren't qualified to put them in visible roles. If you want to reach upper level management, you'll have to relocate several times.

Advice to Senior Management – Promote employees based on pure performance and results. Not to fill quotas and satisfy lack of company wide diversity.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Sherwin-Williams part-time for less than a year

Pros – For the work I did, the pay was ok, better than working in a grocery store or at Walmart. Everybody I worked directly with or interacted with that was associated with the company was great.

Cons – I graduated college and have a job offer at a competitor for a full time management position. District Manager told me "they'll work you to death over there, you should stay with Sherwin". When I asked what kind of offer he had for me, was told to stick around as a part time employee and see what developed! What a joke!

Advice to Senior Management – Get District Managers who are in touch with reality. and if you're gonna lead by looking at numbers look at numbers that mean something. You're cash 2 charge promotion? You hammer the stores for not converting the list of preapproved accounts, when you have one store that has 21 to convert, half of which are accounts for different stores, the other half are a local franchise that has a national account through the parent company, and other stores have only 1 preapproved account to convert. No surprise then, when the store with one preapproved account gets it converted to a charge account you sit and praise their hard work, yet the other store has opened 15 new charge accounts, none of which were preapproved, in the same amount of time, and you harp on them to do better.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Sherwin-Williams full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – stable company
some perks, free coffe, tea, etc...

Cons – * Longevity is valued over skill and knowledge, which doesn't make any sense in the software development world.
* People with a lighter skin pigment tend to get promoted faster.
* Tuition reimbursement policy that only covers 4.5k of yearly tuition expenses.
* Arcane software development practices.
* Shell script based version control systems, no documentation, no real design phase, no investment in QA teams (developers end up testing the software they built or worse, low level associate developers who never really even know what they are testing end up rubber stamping code changes).
* Salary is not negotiable.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Sherwin-Williams part-time

Pros – Meeting new people and learning all about paint.

Cons – Not enough hours for part time

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Sherwin-Williams

Pros – Great pay. A perfect blend of blue collar work mixed with white collar. Company takes care of its employees. start out with 10 days of vacation can work up to 30. 401k. S-W pays for like 90% of my health care.

Cons – have to work 44 hours a week instead of 40 but not much of a con. Its retail which can be challenging for some.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company