Old Fashioned But Stable Company - Financial Analyst Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

3.0
Jun 24, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Stock price is skyrocketing and the company is growing fast. Somewhat competitive pay/6% 401k match/benefits/tuition reimbursement. Lots of opportunities to get different jobs around the company to see what area you like - you only have to stay in position for 1 year if you meet expectations. Plenty of relocation opportunities, especially in Global Supply Chain. Technology is being upgraded.

Cons

There is a major "bad boss" problem in finance/accounting in this company. Very little management training given to supervisors with little to no oversight on their performance as experienced by their employees - as another review said, "you don't leave your job, you leave your boss." Favoritism is everywhere. If the higher ups don't have a good perception of you, you aren't going to progress. It's possible to manage, but felt very inauthentic to me. Lots of brown-nosing. If you try to do anything differently, no matter how innovative or value-add it is, it will get shot down. If you find a great project that will improve shareholder value in the long run but takes a monetary investment up front, don't even bother trying. The field auditor program for early career finance/accounting majors encourages an "us vs them" culture with the sales field that does not go away. I found sales people act very suspicious of finance no matter how much you try to act as a business partner. Major imbalance of work between finance jobs in the field and at HQ. HQ jobs typically have a lot of time for online shopping and IM'ing outside of close, but my friends in field jobs are putting in 60+ hours of work per week. You have to pay for your own parking or rapid/bus fare if you work at HQ downtown. Hopefully this changes with much needed new building.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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