Sherwin-Williams reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(9,502 total reviews)
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Heidi Petz

36% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Sherwin-Williams has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 9,502 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
Dec 16, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You learn a lot about the paint business, the customers are still retail customers but they tend to really trust you, you can honestly start as a part time employee and move up, Sherwin Williams hires 90% of its employees from inside the company, very good pay for amount physical work, they have locations everywhere in the country and they will help you move to a different location if you end up moving, excellent employee discount, no drug test and they really trust you as an employee, they will work with you if you really mess something up opposed to blaming you and firing you on the spot, they have a lot of employee resources when it comes to things like drug abuse, depression, workplace harassment, they will let you buy Roseta Stone at a 90% discount in any language, at the end of the day I always felt very satisfied with my job even though I never went to college, you will honestly have huge amount of option when it comes to future promotions, they have many different paint/design industries you can work in. ,

Cons

Not many but I would say my biggest gripe is having to do multiple cold calls a day as a daytime retail employee, they are still a corporation so they can be unfair about so minor things.

2.0
Dec 6, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation was great, benefits were also pretty good. The training program inside the store was great. The Cleveland training for Sales Reps was a joke. They act as if we are selling million dollar widgits to CEO's and COO's... We are selling to painters.

Cons

Expectations of Sales Reps are totally unrealistic, managment tells you to lie and just make it happen. Unreal budgets and negative inpact on employeement history if budgets are not hit.

2.0
Dec 5, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

slow periods allow you to do nothing and just chill on your phone

Cons

the pay is too low retail customers can be very rude long weekend hours or very early hours

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