Great place to work, learn, grow... - Intern Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

4.0
9 Feb 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Get a lot of experience within the industry regardless of job function, learn a lot from superiors and co-workers, most jobs use a significant amount of computer technology which is transferrable to other jobs (internal and external). Performance review is great. HQ is really nice place to work

Cons

A little stuffy and old feeling at times. Many life-time workers @ SW (25+ years). Takes longer to move up when you start out fresh because of office politics, "everyone has their place" (This is not an idea held by all management and is usually the opinion of someone not supervising you anyway -- ie: People who have been in entry-level jobs for 15+ years).

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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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