Great place to start a career - Sales Associate Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

4.0
8 Aug 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to learn skills, Great place to advance a career (If you have a 4 year degree, that is), Work environment is generally good. Schedule is really flexible depending on your store, fantastic if you like to move around.

Cons

There are not enough employees at larger stores. I am not in management but most of the hours I work are spent alone with no assistance. When it gets busy, customers get angry because they have to wait and leave. Not good business. Pressure from corporate ties the hands of the store management. Corporate is really out of touch with what goes on in the stores.

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5.0
6 Jun 2026
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Pros

Successful managers & assistant managers build strong relationships with their customers.

Cons

As a manager of a store, you have to be constantly on call for issues that could arise at your store.

5.0
16 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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