Sherwin-Williams reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(9,481 total reviews)
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Heidi Petz

37% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Sherwin-Williams has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 9,481 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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9K reviews
2.0
Mar 29, 2026
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Pros

Great work life balance, people Director level and below were good to work with.

Cons

Upper management has made truly questionable decisions the last few years that hit morale hard and will leave lasting impacts: voluntary separations, removing 401k match, RTO 5 days a week. Anyone with two brain cells could tell you that long term you are going to lose your best people for a short term benefit to expenses. Systems and data are embarrassing and the company fix is to go with an ERP system that hasn’t even been fully built (but they got a good deal). Rollout has been delayed and full of issues. Heck, SHW didn’t even use Microsoft for email until like 2019 because they didn’t want to pay the license fee. Again, letting costs impact long term success and ability to operate. Average midwestern white men fail upwards all the time, especially if they started their career at SHW. Finance VPs are comically disproportionate to being white males, and there is a heavy gender/racial bias within the company (I guess move this to a pro if you are a white male?). Overall, it feels like there is no vision for the company the last 5 years and decisions are made solely to maintain the short term stock price and keep investors happy.

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