Sherwin-Williams reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(9,491 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 9,491 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
Aug 8, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The money is good as is the 401 k option. Has decent benefits. The program isn't that long and you get paid training.

Cons

Poor work life balance. What good is your vacation time if you have no ability to take it without letting the store down. The markets are oversaturated which makes sales goals unrealistic for certain stores. There is an over catering to customers even if they are wrong you still have to comp them free products which causes management and associate employees to be abused by patrons and clientele

1.0
Jul 26, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Average - above average salary for recent college graduate. Faster career growth than non-management trainee employees.

Cons

95% physical labor - 3% office work - 1% transferable skills. Retail environment. Schedule sucks, once you are placed after 6-8 week training kiss your weekends and evenings goodbye. Work/Life balance is laughable at best. Be prepared to work with idiots for the most part. Full-Time hours - part time lunch breaks.

3.0
Jul 21, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The positives of working for SW match those of most any large corporation: you have a clear and solid benefits package, a large network of co-workers/colleagues, and opportunities that you can be promoted to (eventually) in your area, and if not your area, other places around the country.

Cons

Understaffing was the greatest challenge in my district. At no time was there more than 1 person opening and closing our store location, which was challenging with 3 cashiers, and frankly, a little uncomfortable for the rougher area we were located in. Part-time employees were making about the same as the folks pumping gas across the street. Full-time (non-mgmt) employees made a couple bucks more. But for both this always struck me as too little for the expectation to know all the various store elements: cashiering, warehousing, product knowledge, stocking, etc. SW does tout their training program for Assistant Managers, and they provide you with a sizable book full of terminology and reading with exercises each week, but in my experience, this was a greater burden on the managers training, who were short on time, especially in the summer season. In general, it was very difficult to train employees as it was virtually all "on-the-job," which is hard when it's just you and that one other person in the store and a line of people waiting for service.

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