This is no office job. You work register/warehouse/office. You mix paint daily. - Manager Trainee Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

3.0
17 Jan 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of nice people. Lots to learn. 6% 401k matching is fantastic. High quality benefits, but you definetly pay for them.

Cons

The job description can be misleading. This is no high level position. You are running a store with an Assistant Manager, A Store Manager, and other employees. You get down and dirty, mix paint, and check out customers all day. After you do this long enough they place you at a store as an Assistant Manager. Then you get paid the same as you do as a MT, but you are bonus eligible, which you can make a grand or so a quarter typically, but all depending on your stores performance. You can get 0 bonus if you do not hit the budget set for you. Also this "yearly salary" is accounting for you to work 44 hours a week. You are an hourly employee as a MT and Assistant manager. The last 4 hours of your week are scheduled overtime and you are paid time and a half, which if done every week consistently adds up to the 49,000. If you take vacation you are losing out on your last hours which means you are missing out on your highest paid hours. Store managers are salary but expected to work 48 hours a week. Often they end up working more than that for no extra pay.

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5.0
22 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

good benefits, not a difficult job once you get used to it

Cons

crazy schedule and old systems

5.0
16 June 2026
Recommend
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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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