Sherwin-Williams reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(9,490 total reviews)
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Heidi Petz

36% 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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9K reviews
3.0
Dec 15, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great 401k match 100% up to 6% of salary

Cons

You are basically an entrepreneur running your own store. In charge of ordering, cleaning bathrooms, stocking shelves. cashier, sales rep, account management, They push new accounts as the path to promotion, but the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Putting your head down and working hard does not get you there. You have to have to have a bit of a "look at me! look what I did!" strategy and play the politics game. The career path after sales rep is bleak. Pay difference from a good territory to district management is not worth it. Once you get into district management it seems their schedule is booked out and from the outside looking in they seem very stressed out.

1.0
Nov 14, 2023

Bad

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If there’s one thing this company does well, it’s cutting costs unnecessarily to increase profits and screwing over their store level employees.

Cons

First it was Covid, then it was the EXTREME material shortage. We were told how important our jobs were on the front lines dealing directly with our customers and tackling these problems head on. For what? A pat on the back and an “attaboy”?… Pay scale is garbage. They’ll increase prices by double digits, boast about record gross profits over the year but refuses to give any meaningful raises. Don’t like the pay? Quit and they’ll just hire someone inexperienced and pay them more than they told you that you were worth. New hires start out at higher wages than experienced employees who have several years under their belt. Stores are understaffed and struggling, meaning little to no work life balance. 7 days a week regardless of staffing. Good luck getting to use any of your earned PTO. Didn’t get to use all of your PTO? Throw it in the garbage because it won’t roll over and they won’t pay it out. Sales budgets are made to be unattainable. Corporate expects us to consistently, unconditionally create heavy growth of the business without giving us the proper resources or ability to accomplish goals. Mentally exhausting and draining. Some people can thrive in this type of environment, but as for me, this job makes me want to die in my sleep so I won’t have to go back the next day.

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