Overall a good place - Sales Representative Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

4.0
Oct 28, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits and retirement plans are great. I advanced very quickly but I was well-liked, district management holds a lot of power over whether or not you go anywhere so whether you like the District Manager or District Sales Manager or not, you should at least be professional or you will stay an assistant manager forever.

Cons

Huge conglomerate. So many moving wheels at the highest level that senior managers are pretty out of touch. They tend to paint with too broad of a brush, especially on economic situations. You will be praised for doing well but it will be forgotten very quickly. It is an old boys club, promotions and advancement come to those who play the game.

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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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