Sherwin-Williams reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(9,518 total reviews)
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Heidi Petz

35% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Sherwin-Williams has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 9,518 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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3.0
May 21, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits 401k and travel once or twice a year, paid for. People from managers down are typically really cool. Bonuses are sort of uncapped. So if your single and have the time, you could make $$

Cons

District managers are puppets and will hire a fresh out of college kid with no clue on the company cutler, over a knowledgeable vet. Your just a number and you must drink the kool aid to be successful and liked by upper management. If your a manager of a store, you will be taken advantage of without thanks. You will be micromanaged and have no say on what goes on in your store. DM’s vp’s all live in a fantasy world were small cities will magically produce 10’s of thousands of painters every year, for you to go out and find. Which you will have to do a year end plan for the next year based on stats that you have gathered on 25-30 new prospects. You will be belittled during these presentations if what you’ve done does not fit their criteria. Oh, it’s in front of 15-25 people, too. Not including the dm’s. That’s about all I can think of.

3.0
May 20, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Growth opportunities and challenging work.

Cons

Work life balance. Company way too aggressive return to office strategy in Ohio with low vaccination rates. Removing all capacity limits/social distancing in June.

3.0
May 13, 2021

SW Store Manager Review

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Get to learn a lot about paint. Benefit from getting heavy discounts on paint and supplies, sometimes its even free when we mess up paint. You will make a lot of friends. Fairly easy job, not too demanding on the physical body. A lot of down time depending on the store you work at. Some stores are super slow and others are ridiculously busy.

Cons

48 hour work weeks. Required to make sales calls with a set minimum every week. Personally hated calling customers that didn't want to give me the time of day to help save them money on paint. There's no such thing as a break/lunch. If you heat up some food and 10 customers walk in right when your about to chow down - guess what? You have to help them first due to the relatively small staff all stores have. During sales calls - we are to push commercial account applications towards reluctant customers that rarely ever have good credit standing or want an account. Upper management sets unrealistic sales goals and other objectives like capturing customer emails every month. (Most painters are old school guys that don't even have a smartphone/computer. How do you expect us to capture their email?)

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