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

53% 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
3.0
Oct 15, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you are willing to move around the country you can move up the ladder quickly but must buy in to the corporate mantra.

Cons

Unobtainable sales goals. Heavily micro managed. Unreasonable hours. Seal Island..... degrading. SW was once a great place to work until the economy dipped. Everything is now micro managed and managers and sales reps are glorified sales associates.

1.0
Jul 22, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good Retirement Package 401K and Pension

Cons

Not rewarded for hard work or knowledge. If you don't network with the right people, you aren't getting promoting or decent raises. People who fail and cost the company money fail upward to better positions, rather than lose their job or responsibility. Zero to no opportunities for advancement outside of Cleveland. If you don't agree with with the ideas of management your going nowhere. Grade school mentality when people are identified for promotions, If your popular with the managers you can go far even if more qualified, educated, and knowledgeable people are competting for the same jobs or promotions. Chemistry courses are required in the technical labs for jobs that won't need that type of education, while no management courses or experience are required for management positions. Some older chemist and scientist only have high school educations, while newer people are required to have at least 16 credit hours of college chemistry. Communincations are exteremely poor throughout the company. Salaries of Grade levels are kept Top Secret! Extremely poor medical benefites. (Aetna medical insurance is terrible!!!)

1.0
May 13, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

*Excellent workplace if you've got a degree *Daytime and early evening hours *Perfect hours for college students *Great for networking

Cons

*Nonexistent promotion opportunities for part and full time employees *No benefits or chance to work your way up to obtain them *Hour cap and no overtime *Hard work done not compensated monetarily unless at Management level (in the form of bonuses) *Open 7 days a week, where Sunday was once a promised day off. More hours open per week, but no additional hours for stores to work with

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