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Updated May 23, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Assistant Store Manager at Sherwin-Williams
Posted Sep 6, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 (took 3 days)
The recruiter calls and does a phone screening interview, if they find you to be a good fit they call you in for a 1:1. After that if they think you are good fit they send you to a "store visit" where you go the nearest Sherwin-Williams store to see what the job is really like. Once you have done the store visit you report to the recruiter which then schedules a meeting with the district manager/city manager. You meet with him and it all goes from there, he decides whether or not you'll be hired.
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there is no negotiation
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Management Training Program (MTP) at Sherwin-Williams
Posted Aug 26, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 (took 2 weeks)
We first started off by him calling me to set up an interview- then when we figured out what day and time, he was in a different state then I was so we decided to do the interview over skype which ended up as an over the phone interview.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Office Tech at Sherwin-Williams
Posted Aug 20, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 (took a day)
I interviewed with the HR manager and the supervisor.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Management Training Program (MTP) at Sherwin-Williams
Posted Aug 18, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 (took 3 months)
Interviewing for MTP program is very extensive. I cannot say anything negative about the company but do you really have to meet with 4 people and do a store visit just to sign to do retail?...Apparently. However, I do think that if you meet the right people and want to work for Sherwin Williams, than this is the right job for you.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Management Sales Trainee Program at Sherwin-Williams
Posted Aug 12, 2011 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 (took 3 weeks)
THE PROCESS
I found out about the program through LinkedIn and directly applied on there in July (around the last week). About a week later (in August), I get an email from a recruiter. The recruiter set a time to speak with me and told me to apply on the company website and so I did. Once I applied to the website, I sat back and waited for the phone call to come through on my cell phone. On that Friday, I got not one but two overlapping phone calls from two different people. The first was from the HR manager (in the state I applied to) who saw my application online. He mostly talked about the company and the (blue collar) store position. His phone call was impromptu and very "random" as he "happened" to call me right before the Recruiter. I did not say anything about my predicament, thinking perhaps he let the Recruiter know that he wanted to talk to me. Anyway, the HR manager emphasized that it was a blue collar position, which I could infer from the website. However, I let him have his spiel. Answering any questions that he asked along the way. About 10 minutes into my conversation, the Recruiter calls twice. It was then that I knew that the "right hand" had no clue what the "left hand" was doing. I did not answer her call, thinking I could deal with her after I dealt with the HR manager. At the end of the conversation, the HR manager offered me a 1:1 interview, and I accepted.
After I hung up, I tried to get in contact with the Recruiter via phone, but I was unable to (just got voice mail), and later, I received back-to-back, scathing emails saying how unprofessional I was and that I should have let her know that I had a "meeting" with the HR manager. I didn't. As I said above, the HR manager's call was not scheduled. Anyway, I wrote her back in a professional, polite, and apologetic tone, explaining what happened. I'm sure she's over it, but I'm not.
So the 1:1 interview went alot like the phone interview except that I got to talk a lot more, and we exchanged info about ourselves. He kept getting my name wrong, and that was really annoying (especially since I corrected him), but I ignored it. Just like I didn't mention the phone mishap the other day. The questions were text book. The only highlight of the interview was the fact that I mentioned HGTV, the new paint colors, and David Bromstad because I saw the ads in House Beautiful and on HGTV (which I enjoy watching), and I had some time before the interview to flip through the corporate magazines on the table stand. He even said that I was the first candidate to mention that stuff, and it made me happy. (But. then, that begs the question: How many college graduates did he interview for this same position? Why not expand his search to military personnel and high school graduates? Because clearly he must think that me and the others with a college degree would bail when a good paying, intrinsically motivating job/career comes along, right? Because I suppose that is what a "college degree" must mean: we aren't suited to work in "blue collar" positions. Besides the corporate magazine chronicled how a competitive and motivated high school graduate became one of their star players after X amount of years.)
I haven't really reached the end of the interviewing process, but I doubt I'll get a "call-back." If I do, I'll get to tour the store as a "reality-check" (his words not mine), and then I'll be offered the position and go straight to work learning all there is to know about paint and selling it to customers and running a store.
CONCLUSION
The job "requires" a degree but the work in question is something that I could have done straight out of high school, and I have the feeling that the HR manager feels the same. If I had a nickel or dollar for every time he emphasized the work in nature (i.e. manual, you won't see suits and ties, stirring paint, etc), I would be rich. However, I don't think interviewing at Sherwin Williams was a waste of time because I need (interviewing) experience.
If I am offered a job with Sherwin-Williams, I probably won't take it because I would only be working for instrumental reasons (i.e. money, perhaps I will prove my worth and earn a seat in the marketing department [marketing/advertising is where I think I want to work], I will have time to film and edit stuff at night or on weekends, etc.).
Apologies, I am using this to vent alot. Hopefully, some of this info will be helpful to you.
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Management Training Program (MTP) at Sherwin-Williams
Posted Aug 12, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in Indianapolis, IN (took 2 weeks)
Got contact information for the District Manager through Career Services at my college. Contacted district manager for a store visit. Went to the store visit, and the manager was not there (had left the store when he wasnt supposed to). Ended up having to reschedule, and explain to the district manager that I was not late because the manager store visit lied on me. Got the interview with a District Manager after the store visit. He spoke for a straight two hours about the company. He asked if I was interviewing with other companies and who they were. I told him no because other companies I was interviewing with were not his business. He said he would contact me within a week, got a call with an offer.
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Negotiation Details
No. My advice is to not take the offer because Sherwin-Williams will not pay your moving expenses or increase your salary if you have to move. They expect you to train for 6-8 weeks, then place you where they want you, and your ability to move up in the company is based on having to move around.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Management Trainee at Sherwin-Williams
Posted Aug 4, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 (took 2 weeks)
I applied for the Management Trainee Program online through the Sherwin Williams website. I was contacted by a recruiter about a week after I submitted my application. I informed him I was looking for work in a specific city because I was relocating there. He said once I got there we could schedule a phone interview.
The recruiter scheduled the interview, emailed me at the last minute to reschedule, and then missed the interview because he scheduled something else around the same time. I found that very disrespectful, as I spent almost an hour waiting (in addition to the time I spent prepping) for the call until he told me what had happened. He called me the next day, and asked fairly easy and generic questions.
He asked if I was willing to relocate. I said I was, but not for a little while, because I had just signed a lease on an apartment that I could not break. The recruiter explained that even though I had applied for a listing in the city I lived in, I could not stay there once training was done due to a lack of available positions. I would have to relocate about five hours away if I wanted the job. The was no help with relocation costs if I had to break my lease or pay rent on two places.
Overall, I felt the interview process was very unprofessional. They need to be more specific on what they mean by "relocate." I feel they should not list openings in a certain city if they cannot guarantee space. I felt my time was wasted especially since I was upfront about the fact that I had just moved to that city.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Lead Warehouser at Sherwin-Williams
Posted Aug 2, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 (took 2 days)
One on one with Store Manager along with a few days of turning in appropriate documentation for hiring.
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Negotiation Details
Laid back and very easy to speak your mind.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Management Training Program (MTP) at Sherwin-Williams
Posted Jul 22, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 (took 4 weeks)
A week after I applied online, I did a phone interview with the company's recruiter. The recruiter mainly asked behavioural questions and work experience. I then had to do a store visit where I asked the store manager and assistant manager pre-made questions that the company came up with to learn more about what you would be doing. After the store visit I had another phone interview with the city manager. It was a pretty straight forward again asking about work experience, some behavioural questions and also about the store visit. The last part of the interview process was just meeting the branch manager to ask any other questions I might have been wondering. Everyone that I talked to are very friendly and love working for Sherwin-Williams.
Interview Questions
Negotiation Details
Make sure you're are prepared for basic interview questions. There are also a lot of questions about customer service.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Assistant Manager at Sherwin-Williams
Posted Jul 20, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 (took 4 weeks)
Phone interview went well and consisted of a lot of scenario questions, such as "Tell me about a time where someone in a group effort was not pulling there weight and what did you do about it?" Then had an instore visit. I thought that went well, but the store manager I visited with was rude and acted like he did not want me there, then gave negative feedback back to the organization. They were very sketchy about the interview process, asking me to make a trip down to Idaho to do a face-to-face interview, but then never got in touch with me, and were difficult to get in touch with.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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