Wear many hats for little pay - Assistant Manager Sherwin-Williams Employee Review

3.0
15 Dec 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Great 401k match 100% up to 6% of salary

Cons

You are basically an entrepreneur running your own store. In charge of ordering, cleaning bathrooms, stocking shelves. cashier, sales rep, account management, They push new accounts as the path to promotion, but the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Putting your head down and working hard does not get you there. You have to have to have a bit of a "look at me! look what I did!" strategy and play the politics game. The career path after sales rep is bleak. Pay difference from a good territory to district management is not worth it. Once you get into district management it seems their schedule is booked out and from the outside looking in they seem very stressed out.

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Cons

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5.0
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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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