Large Company with Lots of Bureaucracy - Marketing Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

3.0
26 Aug 2014
Recommend
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Pros

My company was purchased by Sherwin Williams and over the course of a couple years they systematically eliminated all the "corporate" employees, however I consider their compensation to me very fair and they also offered a generous "pay to stay" bonus for people who were willing to stay on and help with the transition.

Cons

As with many large companies, most departments are huge and do not communicate well with each other.

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Pros

Feels like family locally. Good friendships between stores

Cons

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16 Jun 2026
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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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