Awful - Anonymous employee Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

1.0
6 May 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Honestly benefits are great, fantastic health care program and 401k options.

Cons

First off- building is awful, cockroaches, dust, horrible air quality. Second- zero consistency in management. No one is held accountable and always blame the little guys... typical daily life. Normal to be threatened to be fired over being 1 minute late. HR incompetent, don’t bother reporting anything it gets ignored. A bunch of corporate drones trying to make them selves look better by belittling their subordinates. Especially because they can’t show their work to make them stand out because they are incompetent.

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Pros

Wonderful employees at each store, particularily helpful at navigating the vast expanse of products. Overall, great work environment with special people.

Cons

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5.0
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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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