Great company, if you can find your niche - Anonymous employee Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

4.0
Apr 27, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Fair pay. Great benefits. 401k and pension. Huge vacation allotments after working for the company for while. Paid holiday. Lots of travel.

Cons

Some members of some store teams are jaded and simply don't care anymore. Being in a store and listening to a jaded employee whine is counter productive and total waste of time. It's not really a con, but more of an observation.

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Cons

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Jul 14, 2026
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Pros

easy job with little work load and decent customer base

Cons

they cut my 401k for 6 months with no mention of when it was coming back, terrible CEO that everyone hated who cut jobs to save money for a new headquarter that we absolutely did NOT need, bought a random argentinian paint company to monopolize an already dying business and put the cost back onto the consumer by charging way more for paint. They also give discounts to national brands and apartment complexes that are literally less than what the store charges for paint and forces us to sell to them, losing money in the process ( for the individual stores but making them money since they own the whole manufacturing and distribution process and up-charge stores for products they require us to sell ). Overall climbing up the ladder is easy but upper management suck and will make any good hearted, hardworking manager quit in the long run.

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