Overall, good experience - Anonymous employee Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

3.0
16 Jul 2013
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Big company that treats you well with lots of opportunities to advance your career. Always look to hire from within before anyone else normally.

Cons

Depends on your store, but being short staffed was an every day occurrence at my store. My store did a million dollars annually but we were only allowed one part time employee next to myself and store manager.

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Cons

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Pros

A positive work environment. The best co-workers I have had so far in my career worked with me at Sherwin. I also worked under an amazing management team. There is a lot of room for career growth. I worked for Sherwin for about 3.5 years. I started as a contracted lab technician, then I was hired full time as an R&D Associate Chemist. I quickly worked my way up to R&D Chemist within a year of being hired full time. The department I worked in was very fast paced, however, I know there are many other groups that move at a much slower pace with longer timelines. This would make it much easier to manage the workload.

Cons

Working with marketing was challenging at times. We would regularly receive big requests a day before they needed something. This would pose a challenge when you had other priorities to attend to. The pay was average. I do think it could have been slightly higher for all of the job responsibilities given to the chemists in my group specifically. The workload was overwhelming at times.

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