Manager Training Program - Anonymous employee Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

3.0
Jul 22, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Not many. Benefit and Salary are above average.

Cons

Work/Life balance is not existent. Most MT's quit within first 6 months to a year. Not much opportunity for advancement. No matter what the circumstances that always have the Store managers back. This is a pro is you happen to be a manager, but if you're not it can really make things difficult. Most people who work for the company don't have college degrees so their management skills are a joke. Long hours, work weekends, can't easily move to different locations or departments. As an Asst. Manager coming out of the MT Program you can't choose your placement. I have been commuting an hour for the past year.

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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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