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4.0

84% would recommend to a friend

(275 total reviews)

Steve Acorn

86% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Student Painters, LLC has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 275 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Student Painters, LLC employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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275 reviews
1.0
May 29, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Get experience running your own business, get to set your own hours even though you don't really get to because they force you to do more than they said you would need to/

Cons

Poor training. Teach you to lie to the customer. Bad company culture. Don't care about your other obligations. Keep the money at the top, charge the students doing all the real work a 42% fee. Charge the students for "complimentary" hotel room for training. Very unethical practices such as practically forcing students to sign contracts, NDA, etc under duress without allowing you to read it first.

5.0
Nov 10, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Experience. There's quite literally nothing else a college student can find to match running their own business at Student Painters. Trust me, I looked. The job required everything I do in my current job 8-10 years later. Hiring/managing people, managing finances of a business, marketing and sales, customer relations, objection handling, problem solving, customer/employee disputes, project management and estimating. The experience can't be beat. I learned more running my business and overseeing others than I did in college and they paid me (410,000+/summer, other made more) to do it! For the right person, with the right support, this can be a very lucrative and successful venture.

Cons

In hindsight, transparency and overall moral practices. There are a number of things going on behind the scenes that now, knowing what I do, don't make sense. Frankly, I'm not entirely sure how they pull off some of what they practice. I'd be very curious what an audit of finances and business practices would produce. Managers who fail often ended up "owing the company money" (they leave that part out of the sales pitch) or "breaking even." As a employee of the company (we were not 1099 or the like) managers should be subject to minimum wage. They monitored this (I believe) in the summer months, but not in the spring/winter when marketing and training were being done. In fact, they encouraged Branch Managers not to "pay themselves" out of their branch's budget for marketing in the off-season as it would "hurt overall profits in the summer." However, if the production season went south, that money was never made up. I would venture to guess you could find many stories of students who worked the better part of a year (or longer) and did not average minimum wage for their time. Frankly, anyone who has left Student Painters and gone into HR must cringe at some of their memories.

5.0
Sep 24, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you want to be a CEO someday, what's the best way to learn how? How about become a CEO of a small, summertime-only exterior house painting business and grow your skills from there. Nowhere else in the world are you given nearly as much responsibility at such a young age. PROS responsibility + accountability growth and learning independent decision making challenging company culture (work hard, play hard!) The company is run by people who truly care about their students and want them to succeed. Not every student is successful, but nobody leaves with a sour taste. The rules of success and failure are set on day 1. If you're interested in taking on a difficult leadership position, THIS IS IT. My friends I've met through Student Painters have gone on to amazing sales, banking, and engineering jobs, and more than a few have founded their own startups and are trying to improve the world.

Cons

Insanse hours: 12 hrs/day standard. No matter how much coaching you receive, launching your first business is difficult and time-consuming. Stressfull. Every day brings new challenges. This is not for people who want to coast through their summer. Accountability. Nobody else will step in and run your business for you. If you fail, you will be fired. Not everybody survives the summer.

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