Good place to work but watch out for bureaucracy - Inside Sales Associate Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

4.0
Jun 13, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

The company takes time to make sure that all employees are up to date on the latest and greatest product offerings. Furthermore their training (although boring and tedious) is helpful when you are trying to help a homeowner. This is a service job so you will be dealing with customers but in general Sherwin seems to promote the right people to run the stores.

Cons

This is a large corporation and you will fill out paperwork... a lot of paperwork for everything you do. Furthermore, even at the lowest level you are expected to be able to juggle tasks that may far outweigh your pay grade (e.g. large orders for industrial coatings and the like)

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Pros

easy job with little work load and decent customer base

Cons

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