Self-Motivation a Must - Assistant Store Manager Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

3.0
Jul 9, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Decent Pay, like owning your own business, good people to work with. Cliche as it may seem, this job is what you make of it. As long as you are surrounded by quality staff, you can climb the ladder in a relatively short amount of time.

Cons

Stores are open 7 days a week, winters can be very boring. Depending on the DM that is your area, you can feel very valued or very undervalued. The difference in a good DM and a poor DM completely changed by perspective of the company in the final 2 years I was with the company.

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

A positive work environment. The best co-workers I have had so far in my career worked with me at Sherwin. I also worked under an amazing management team. There is a lot of room for career growth. I worked for Sherwin for about 3.5 years. I started as a contracted lab technician, then I was hired full time as an R&D Associate Chemist. I quickly worked my way up to R&D Chemist within a year of being hired full time. The department I worked in was very fast paced, however, I know there are many other groups that move at a much slower pace with longer timelines. This would make it much easier to manage the workload.

Cons

Working with marketing was challenging at times. We would regularly receive big requests a day before they needed something. This would pose a challenge when you had other priorities to attend to. The pay was average. I do think it could have been slightly higher for all of the job responsibilities given to the chemists in my group specifically. The workload was overwhelming at times.

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