Sweetwater reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(541 total reviews)
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Mike Clem

89% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Sweetwater has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 541 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Sweetwater employee rating is 21% above average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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541 reviews
4.0
Nov 8, 2020

Solid Job

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Straight forward work, good hours

Cons

Low pay, lack of communication

5.0
Oct 11, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great atmosphere and sense of community!

Cons

Wish they offered more time off.

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Sweetwater Response
5y
Thanks for your 5 star review and I'm glad you enjoyed your time working with us! Regarding time off, earlier this year we added more PDOs for all employees - with most employees receiving an additional 4-5 days depending on their tenure with the company. Helping our team members achieve a good work-life balance is very important to us so we were glad to be able to make this happen for them. - Jeff Ostermann, Chief People Officer
4.0
Oct 9, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits, colleagues with similar interest, Pay growth, low cost of living, hands off management style. Tons of learning!

Cons

Tons of calls are required to succeed, dealing with thousands of customers, POS system will crash during the day slowing down your work, endless communication. This is a a very "drink the kool-ade culture". lots of extra meetings and hours.

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Sweetwater Response
5y
Thanks for your overall positive review and good feedback. I understand that any system crash can be a headache but fortunately our sales system currently maintains a 99.96% uptime which works out to less than 4 hours per year of downtime. Our IT team is always working to make that better but this level of uptime compares very favorably to other systems and industry standards. Another benefit of our in-house system is that we don't have to go through massive "system conversions" every several years which can cause even bigger headaches in many companies. For further comparison, here is one recent comment our IT team received from one of our sales team members: "You and your team are so rad. Thanks for everything you do. I spent years running stores for [another retail company]. The systems were crap, there were never updates, and I could count the calm and friendly folks in IT on 4 fingers. It was a freaking nightmare. I hope you hear this from way more folks than me. Thanks for making a HUGE difference." - Jeff Ostermann, Chief People Officer
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