Typical Corporate Company - Warehouser Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

3.0
Oct 4, 2015
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Pros

Typically very flexible down to earth management that does what they can with the constraints imposed upon them. Physical, often stress free work environment where time flies (warehouse not retail store). Matching 401k after one year, paid holidays and vacation time. Not too difficult to get hired unless you have some very serious felonies or you are without a drivers license. Relaxed often unsupervised work environment so long as you are getting your work done and in a correct manner.

Cons

Company is obsessed with profits to the degree that they quite literally choose to be blind to everything else. Managers are forced to work insane hours (60-80 per week) or they are told they're not team players. Occupational and safety laws are commonly ignored. Full time is somewhat of a dirty word to the company now. The remaining non-managerial full timers that still work for the company will almost certainly be the last of their kind. They are grandfathered in. Promoting employees is also a thing of the past. You must find a job posting within their online system and apply if you wish to move anywhere within the company. Being promoted is more about having the hiring manager "like" you than anything else. The manager in training program requires that you agree to move anywhere they want you to without upfront reimbursement. Upper level management is almost entirely detached from the day to day activities and constraints of an individual store. Numbers mean everything. Big customers can not be told no. They have access to the numbers of higher level management who will eventually bend and tell the middle managers to simply "make it work". Exposure to hazardous chemicals, fumes and machinery. Salesmen run around making false promises to companies that stores are left to fulfill.

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Pros

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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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