Sherwin-Williams reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(9,490 total reviews)
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37% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Sherwin-Williams has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 9,490 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 7, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

stable company some perks, free coffe, tea, etc...

Cons

* Longevity is valued over skill and knowledge, which doesn't make any sense in the software development world. * People with a lighter skin pigment tend to get promoted faster. * Tuition reimbursement policy that only covers 4.5k of yearly tuition expenses. * Arcane software development practices. * Shell script based version control systems, no documentation, no real design phase, no investment in QA teams (developers end up testing the software they built or worse, low level associate developers who never really even know what they are testing end up rubber stamping code changes). * Salary is not negotiable.

4.0
Mar 18, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Was a great place to work and learn while I was studying in school. The managers always had work for you and they really tried to keep my hours up because of my experience

Cons

After 7 years of working there, I was never let into the Management training program. I had a lot to offer this company with my 7 years of paint experience, but I was ignored, and had to move else where.

3.0
Mar 12, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The salary is fairly competitive. The stock is performing well, though the profit comes at the price of the sanity of many field personnel.

Cons

This company is full of good people; some great people. Hard working folks who genuinely want to do a good job for the company they work for. People that run like hell trying to cover all the bases in the stores they work in and manage, and instead of being rewarded for doing it, they are flogged for failing to toe the line on one of the 74 different metrics that are constantly in play as a layer over an environment where there's a customer coming in or calling an average of every two and half minutes. It makes me wonder if the tasks we expect of our store and field staff, staffed the way we characteristically do (short by our own design and admission) are grounded in reality at all. It seems more likely they are just meant to give something to whip us about.

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