Sonos reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(440 total reviews)

Tom Conrad

47% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Sonos has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 440 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sonos employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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440 reviews
1.0
Sep 26, 2013

Tries too hard

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Start up feel, American company, Santa Barbara head quarters, cool products, focus on music

Cons

Lack of strong leadership, no performance management, high involuntary turnover breeds culture of fear, CEO tries to apply enginerring logic to leadership, CEO is difficult to work closely with and seems to enjoy that reputation, highly arrogant senior leaders

1.0
Sep 11, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent benefits. Great people! I truly miss the people. The people really made this place prior to the reduction in force back earlier this year. It was like a huge family. You hardly saw anyone run for the door come five.

Cons

Poorly managed from the top to manager level. They put far too much emphasis on aggressive hiring, as opposed, to either promoting within or recruiting smartly. Busting your behind and working as hard as possible will not get you anywhere in this place even if it is promised. In my case, for what I did and the impact that I had made I was extremely under compensated from a fair market stand point, as well as, being forced to remain stagnant in a low level individual contributor roll when I was doing far more.

2.0
Mar 15, 2017

Not a Party

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are worse employers out there. Sonos has been through many changes and had a RIF in March but I see they are back at it hiring again after yet another reorganization. Hopefully things work out well. It's a decent pay check, but don't expect much growth or guidance here. They are trying to get it together , but hopefully it is not too late from both the people perspective and the market opportunity. Flexible Tend to attract people who want to work in a fun culture People know the product and Brand

Cons

My impression while working there was that it was one of the most unfulfilling places I have been. As most people have already noted in other reviews the big issues were they were always changing direction, Upper and Middle management give unclear expectations, they talk a good talk but cant seem to walk to the walk. Morale has been down for a few years. People are trying to hold on so they can cash out on the stock that has not been liquidatable for awhile now. These are all points other have already hit on. My take on this is that you get is a Game of thrones situation with people stuck trying to hang on long enough to cash out their stock, which hopefully will happen if they can get it together. On the surface it looks like a cool place to work however when you dig deep there is alot of dysfunction going on. The executives never want to admit they made a bad hire so the bad directors can stay around for a very long time, in turn they probably hire the middle managers that don't care and are not getting good direction and it is eventually blamed on the individual contributor or team lead. High ego at the top in the past. Hopefully the new leadership team is not running the same plays. The offices in Seattle and Boston have much more of a city vibe because people have options. At the end of the day, it has been a bureaucratic, politically driven corporation. Hopefully this will change. I have seen them finally trying to make people a priority but I am sure things have prompted this. Hopefully they get ahead in the people department and the market opportunity as well. As with all teams it probably depends where you sit in the organization. They operate in silos so each dept has a bit of its own culture. You may end a lucky one, but you may not.

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