Sherwin-Williams reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(9,494 total reviews)
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36% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Sherwin-Williams has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 9,494 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sherwin-Williams 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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5.0
Oct 25, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

A solid company that retains employees by promoting from within. They have stores all over so you can choose what part of the country you want to live in,

Cons

Long hours. They are open 7 days a week and rely heavily on part time help so that means managers are forced to work the long hours to make sure the store is staffed.

3.0
Oct 18, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company itself has a lot of good qualities. They have a good 401k plan and pay higher than most other part time jobs. Most of the customers are great to work with, as with any customer service job. The other part timers/hourly workers are also great to work with as well. It's a relatively laid back environment because most stores only employ like 5 or 6 people if that, so it's more like a family environment and less corporate guidelines and scripted HR speeches and stuff like that. They're relatively flexible with school schedules if you're going to school. If you REALLY work for it there are opportunities to move up within the company, but most likely you will need a four year degree; there was a time when mixing paint for 10 years would render you eligible to run a store without a degree, but it seems like now the only way to move any higher than assistant manager is to have your bachelor's.

Cons

Part timers and hourly workers are not treated with respect. There's a rare chance that you'll work for a store manager who actually cares about their employees, but for the most part if you are just an hourly worker, whether part or full time, you will be taken advantage of. They will work you the hours that are most convenient for them, no matter what it means for you, and in my case 80% of my time working in the store I was completely alone, by myself, since I had a key and could close at night. This was incredibly unsafe since the people closing make bank deposits. I was also constantly stuck with two hour shifts at the end of the day because the manager and assistant manager couldn't be bothered to stay any later than 4 or 5 to help close the store. They mostly give management positions to kids fresh out of college with absolutely no work experience or sense of work ethic, and turn a blind eye to seasoned employees who could do the job much better, especially if you haven't gotten your degree yet. In my case (not all stores are like this) I worked for a magnificently sexist and misogynistic manager who strongly believed that since I was the only female in the store that all the cleaning duties should fall on me, and no matter how many times I brought this up to him I was still the store maid. Basically, if there are inappropriate or demeaning issues going on in the store, you're pretty much screwed because the company is rife with sexism just like my particular store was. You can complain to HR and whoever you like, but nothing is likely to be done about it. Like I said, not all stores are like this, and not all SW employees or managers think and act that way. There is just a large majority in SW that do.

3.0
Oct 15, 2015

It depends

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great middle-class job. Non-intellectual, grind-it-out attitude necessary, but for those that have it, you can stay here forever.

Cons

Not for the highly intelligent or highly ambitious.

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