Sherwin-Williams reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(9,506 total reviews)
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Heidi Petz

35% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Sherwin-Williams has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 9,506 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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2.0
Jun 22, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The people that you work with are usually kind. Very understanding and helps you understand the ropes surrounding what is going to be your responsibilities as an Assistant Manager once you finish training in 6 weeks.

Cons

They WILL NOT, I repeat, WILL NOT pay for your relocation (Idk about other regions but in Kansas City they will not)! They said you must be an employee first to get reimbursed. It is a bold-face lie they tell you. I was switched baited by a recruiter from there saying "Oh we will reimburse you after training." NOPE! Even my coworkers advised me to leave and put in my resignation after being screwed over that bad. You think the pay is good? Well, you have to mandate work overtime EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK. 44+ hours. If you dip below that, you do not get the $1,923 biweekly hourly pay and that's before taxes. You get around $1,400 biweekly on average in the Midwest region after taxes. It gets even worse when you get to the store manager position, and you get paid salary, and you must work about 50+ hours every week. I met one who tries to cheat his timesheet here and other corrupt stuff that happens in upper management in the brief time I was here. They try to get naive college students trying to get their first career job to work here to do the work of what is essentially a glorified cashier/warehouse worker. You get no say on who to fire as an Assistant Manager, but you get all the resposibilities if things go badly. Oh! Don't forget to do your cold calling and make logs about those cold calls to numerous amounts of people every week! These people do not really even give you a proper lunch break. We eat on the clock and if a customer walks in... Guess what? You attend to them. I can't tell you the countless times I had to reheat my lunch. We must do this because if you clock out, you need to make up for time you had clocked out to meet your minimum 44+ hours a week so you do not get undercut in pay. Oh! I forgot to mention that their POS system is literally from the 80s and hasn't been updated since! Literally! You do not get your bonus while floating between stores after training. You get to have your bonus when you are placed, do not let them make you believe otherwise. I met people who had to travel to 3 different store locations for a month every week until they were placed! If you still decide to work there because the pay or the career movement is reasonable for your situation my advice is: 1. Focus learning the POS system, it will take a bit to grasp, product knowledge will come overtime, and you can always fall back on "Well I am new." 2. Do not trust anything they say unless they give it to you in writing. Whether that be bonus, relocation, salary, etc... 3. Some management will be overtly kind and such but do not trust that here. They will throw you under the bus first before they lose their job. I learned and even saw cases of this.

2.0
Jun 15, 2023

No loyalty

Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits if you are a full-time employee.

Cons

The company would like everyone to be part time, so they do not have to offer benefits. Watching longtime employees passed over four new positions while younger staff are hired as they are “yes people.” Very little experience without their own opinion and therefore they will go along with whatever upper management wants. The company has absolutely no loyalty that they were employees

3.0
Jun 8, 2023

Average

Recommend
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Pros

1. The benefits package is great when it comes to 401k and vacation 2. If you’re willing to move all over the USA, your opportunity for growth is unmatched

Cons

1. Senior management is not willing to change to keep up with the changing times 2. Not much autonomy in your position and a lot of micromanagement coming from the top 3. Compensation does not compare to other similar companies in the area

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