Stuck in 1974 - Sales Representative Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

2.0
Sep 11, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Health care and 401k are nice.

Cons

The company continues to allow a bullying system of management style. They also pat themselves on the back for hiring females and minorities but that is as far as it goes. District managers do not listen to their sales force about problems in the field which leads all of us to believe that they are also being bullied and ignored. They also promote their friends into lucrative positions and anyone else into positions that are more challenging or difficult.

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Cons

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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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