Sherwin-Williams Reviews

Pros

great benefits. Sky is the limit within the company if you are willing to relocate, and have a lot of initiative and work hard.

Cons

management quality varies by store. You could have a great manager that cares about your development, but you can also get one that does not care and does not train you properly.

Advice to Senior Management

Reward employees efforts and actions, and improve communication with assistant managers.

Pros

Good pay along with the corporate advantages.

Cons

Not much upward possibilities in the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Have a more structured training program.

Pros

Good benefits, 401K match 6% and Company paid pension based on tenure. Proforma Bonus paid to asst mgr, mgr, and reps for reaching budget. nationwide locations.

Cons

Average pay, very hard work, understaffed, high expectaions given support. need to be willing to relocate for best positions.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in more quality people, Stronger Comp Plan.

Pros

compensation package: medical health, vision and dental

Cons

not a place for women to work, physically challenging

Advice to Senior Management

they need to train their current staff as to how to work with women

Pros

Great benefits. Job security, their training program. Something new everyday. Never opened past 6. usually get tim off when needed.

Cons

Budgets are usually un realistic. they tell you how many hrs your employees can work If you don't get overtime they want you to work as many hours as possible. if you get over time they won't let you. if you are a minority or female you get promoted really fast. Seen someone get promoted that was down in sales. Also seen someone get promoted that was only at position for 1 year. They usually say two years. They have no set requirements for promotions it's who ever they have worked with before or if they were a MTP.. They want you to run a store with the least amount of people as possible. get positive feed back from customers they never say a word. But get 1 bad one and well...

Advice to Senior Management

Have a set rule for advancement not just who is on the fast track. There is a big dis connect from upper management and he regular employees. Don't just look at the numbers look at the person and the store they are at.

Pros

Good management training program. Great benefits.

Cons

Computer technology is extremely obsolete, not what one would expect of a $7.5 Billion dollar company.

Advice to Senior Management

Staff stores with more people. Give them authority to make decisions without micromanagement.

Pros

The benefits are good for a similar size company (401k, 6% match, reasonable health ins. costs)

Dealing with new situations daily (contracting jobs, supplying, logistics)

As a manager, you run a store and its operations (Sales/HR/Logistics/Inventory/Operations). Great training and experiance for any of those fields.

Cons

-Hard Retail Hours (48 minumium - usually 55+) PT will call you for help during all hours off as you are the store manager/leader and SW only usually budgets a Manager, Asst Manager and 2 (20) hr week employees...equalling (3 FTE) total employees.

-Time off is hard if you have a family for vacations because of low staffing levels - hard to take a week off

-Staffing - Often times you will work the store alone and you will find yourself with multiple customers in the store...and you find yourself making the decision between wholesale customers and DIY. Wholesale wins everytime!!!

-Sales focus is great...but managers have little time to perfect skills...due to no help in store. Figure out if you want your Store managers to Manage the store...or be sales Reps!!! There is no time to focus on both in a single week!!!

-Inventory needs to be given a priority....you cannot tell a contractor you will not have a product b/c you are OUT and the next stock truck is a week away...Customer service should be doing everything possible to get stores merchandise to customers if they need it before STAR. Of course our customers will got to Lowe's or Menards....

Advice to Senior Management

Look at investing in some support in your stores. Better looks at time and staffing analysis will show that most stores are running at a skeleton-type crew. You are burning out employees and the training involved in replacing them is weaking our sales. Lets also get paint to stores in emergency situations faster so we dont loose sales!!!

Pros

time and a half for part-time employees on holidays
helping people choose colors for their home is enjoyable

Cons

long hours, especially on the weekends
stores are understaffed, which means no time off because there's no one else to work
goals are seemingly unattainable

Advice to Senior Management

once and a while, your people need a break..
staff your stores so that people can have a work/life balance..this is essential to good employee morale.

Pros

Gave time off when needed and good teamwork.

Cons

No room for advancement and pay was not great.

Pros

Vast opportunities for overall development, amazing benefits and q great corporate support team. It is a great family environment where you are proud to work for a 145-year old company.

Cons

Often times communication gets lost from division to division. We all have common organizational goals, we should make it easier to more readily share information.

Advice to Senior Management

We have an amazing leadership team. Our CEO, CFO and president are available to employees at all times. They frequently visit the sites and communicate to the hourly workforce.