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Behr Paint Company

Part of Masco

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Behr Paint Company reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(430 total reviews)
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Vijaikrishna (VJ) Teenarsipur

78% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Behr Paint Company has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 430 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Behr Paint Company employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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430 reviews
4.0
Dec 27, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company Growth potential in Pro Paint sector.

Cons

Exclusivity with Home Depot. Great for finding new business but trying coordinating with Home Depot Management is not always productive.

3.0
Sep 21, 2021

The good and the bad

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Beautiful new corporate headquarters with many free amenities for the employees. -Very supportive of advancing one's education and further developing skill sets- both soft and technical. -Behr and it's parent company do have a high degree of self awareness and they actively poll the employees on how to better themselves. -Diverse employee composition. -Wonderful charity giving policy allows employees to donate time and product to those they support. -Open door policy with management. -Great sister company product discounts. -Many individuals there with long tenures. -Bonus program -Behr is becoming more and more progressive with their work schedule flexibility. -There are many wonderful managers at Behr that, regardless of your department, will help guide and develop you.

Cons

-Hire in at low rates, and only opportunity to earn more is with yearly 3% bonus. -3% bonus is not guaranteed even with perfect yearly review as managers can take a portion of that allotted percentage and give it someone else. This is often positioned to employees as "budget cuts," but it's not. Masco allots for a 3% annual raise per employee per year. The reason you don't get your 3% is because your manager didn't want you to have it- again regardless of your performance record. If you are a manager and want to give an employee more than the annual 3% be prepared to take that percentage away from someone else. -Manager 2 levels get an additional percentage pay bonus. To prevent more employees from making it to this level Behr fabricates "company policies" as to why one might not qualify for a promotion to a higher management level. However, these "policies" are constantly broken or made exception to for those favored by management. -Marketing department has a "Queen Bee" CMO, who promotes those she has had a hand in hiring, and plays favorites. Favors "yes men" and prefers to outsource than use her internal teams. Team moral is low because of this. -Exclusivity contract with The Home Depot has eliminated any free thinking at Behr. Behr, at this point, mainly responds to Home Depot requests. This is just the way it is. -HR leadership is HIGHLY toxic- expect a lot of turnover in the department. Have an issue? Need advice and guidance? Get ready to walk out of there feeling worse than you walked in. -Though annual company betterment surveys identify issues with upper tiers of management, they are exempt from having to change or do anything differently. Lower levels of management are instead expected to enact the changes. -Women's leadership is weak. Behr is still hiring women that lead and manage like men and ignoring those they have that don't. C suite is still primarily male and white. -Jeff Filley, the company president, is most comfortable with what and who he knows. Not a big fan of change, he will keep toxic people in place rather than let them go, much to the detriment of his company's health. He has lost more amazingly talented people than he has kept in holding on to his favorites. -If you are coming in as a new manager, to stand any chance, just assimilate to the Behr way as quickly as you can.

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Behr Paint Company Response
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Thank you for taking the time to write us this review. We value all of our current and former employees' feedback. We are glad that you found many favorable aspects about working at Behr. We continuously review our Total Rewards at Behr. Our competitive program consists of benefits, pay, work environment and various perks. Our team members pay less for healthcare than employees at other companies and we have a rich 401k company match that includes a lucrative profit sharing contribution. Behr researches what the job market pays for similar jobs with the general and manufacturing industries, with similar company size and relevant geographic regions. Thanks again for your insight, and we wish you the best on your future endeavors.
3.0
Sep 15, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay and typical benefits, best part was the President and his involvemnet with the actual production facilities

Cons

HR department was terrible, actually pursued people for ways to fire them instead of ways to improve them. Especially true if you said anything negative about HR or made any of them mad.

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Behr Paint Company Response
4y
Thank you for leaving us a review. Specific incidents with team members and departments can be difficult to address without context or ability to investigate further. However, we want to assure you that out HR department takes these matters seriously and is strictly against retaliating on employees without due cause or documentation. We are sorry to hear that things did not work out and wish you the best.
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