Official: ICI Paints offers excellent pay, benefits, products. But are there struggles at the top?
Pros
Excellent benefits, bragging rights that you work for the largest coatings company on the planet (which helps if you are a salesperson), very good compensation (you must do your homework on the way in and negotiate), company car & gas card with no limits to personal use (though there is a fee now of $150 per pay period or every 2 weeks pre-tax), work load is not too strenuous. Products are the best in the industry, and assortment is easy to sell because of well known brands such as Glidden & Flood. I really do love my job (and the company) and really hope to retire from here. There are many people whom have the same goals and values as I do.
Cons
Senior brass feels incompetent and has [what appears to be] ever changing power tactics. They don't know whether to use a carrot and a stick, or simply beat you with the stick. Sometimes they do both. You work for a "sales based organization" but [it feels] the lowest ranked person in the minds of corporate headquarters IS the salesperson. If the company spent as much time and money advertising and selling as it does attempting to keep the salespeople busy with new computer tracking (micromanaging) tools--it might be successful and outsell its competitors in highly competitive regions. Again, there is little to NO advertising. This is demoralizing for the INTERNAL people at ICI Paints, not just good for earning business from external customers.
