Sherwin-Williams Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Sherwin-Williams

Pros – Great people; Management, peers, staff, and especially the customers.

Cons – Sometimes stressful. Accounts receivable vs sales/customer service.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep it fair and keep up the support.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Sherwin-Williams

Pros – think on your feet. they give you room to work. allowing you to make the changes you want

Cons – they took a long time to make a poor choice (in my opinion) HR.

Advice to Senior Management – choose replacements faster

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Sherwin-Williams

Pros – The management and the atmosphere is great, the company is professional and has hi-standards in terms of customer service and customer satisfaction. I like working for Sherwin Williams I learned a lot here in a very short period of time and I like to help out the customers with their painting needs and concerns.

Cons – The only downside of working here is that it is a part-time position so I had to find a second part time job in order to make enough money.

Advice to Senior Management – The management is great at this store.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Sherwin-Williams

Pros – money, experience, good opportunity for work

Cons – large American, hard times, tough for lower management... long hours

Advice to Senior Management – work more with lower management

Former Employee – worked at Sherwin-Williams

Pros – Good training programs to understand the company more for employees.

Cons – The company is fairly Caucasian based. I was the only non-Caucasian at training with all the other management trainees. It didn't seem like a very good job to develop a management career. The position was more of mixing paint and carrying it to customer's car each day. Very disappointing job coming out of university. Although the annual salary may be high, but the working hours are very demanding. 6:30 AM - 6PM shifts are frequent.

Advice to Senior Management – Act on the "Diversity" value.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Sherwin-Williams full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Pay scale is good, bonuses are fair and easy to understand. Retirement plan is good.

Cons – Stores are open too long during the week and on Saturdays, should be closed on Sunday.

Advice to Senior Management – Knock off the Sunday hours, you are killing your staff's morale.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Sherwin-Williams full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Excellent peers, Great pension/stock plan, very good insurance,decent salary(we do earn it)

Cons – management from vp's to dm's have lost touch with the stores, keep piling the "programs", following countless required cold calls, there is no work/life balance when you are always short handed, micro-managed, too many meetings,open seven days a week a lot of times you are working by yourself.

Advice to Senior Management – Get your VP's,DM,CM and make them work in a store for a week thats shorthanded..let them get a taste of how it feels..its hard to respect someone when they crap on you over and over again. Leaders never stay behind the troops..they lead!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Sherwin-Williams full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great company for advancements. Great pay

Cons – bonus are only for management. Everyone should benefit from the success of the store. dont have a very good program when it comes to moving up unless you are in the management training program which are recruited if you have a degree.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Sherwin-Williams full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – great pay, matching 401k, solid company.

Cons – many,many cold calls involved at all levels in the store. your great when your sales are up, your doing something wrong when sales are down(according to mgmt) ...in mgmt be prepared to take blood pressure meds after a few years.

Advice to Senior Management – come work in a store for a week or two short staffed and do everything you ask the store to do on a daily basis, then think about doing that all year.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sherwin-Williams as an intern

Pros – Not difficult work, clearly structured path. MTP program starts at over 36/yr, growth is a quick possibility. reliable company with much job security

Cons – Many employees seemed defeated. Many hours in a physically demanding workplace can easily cause stress under the wrong manager. Easy to get overwhelmed and be negative about the future.

Advice to Senior Management – Spend more time interacting with and meeting the needs of low level employees- sales reps often demand too much of the store

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company