Sweetwater reviews

I wrote pages of feedback and upon reflection no one is going to read all that. In short - I agree with virtually everything positive listed on this site and disagree with virtually everything negative listed on this site. The people at Sweetwater are amazing people. Is the company perfect - no. Is it the best place I (an overachiever, former pianist in the Marine Band with two masters degrees in music) have ever worked - absolutely. If you are not a team player, bright and hard working please do not apply - you will hate working there and your coworkers will not appreciate that you are acting entitled and lazy. It is a hard to place to work if you don't have the full support of your coworkers. There have been a lot of fundamental and positive changes made in the past two years. I know people from every department that have advanced in the company. Hourly employees got a sizable raise in the past year. It is the highest trained sales staff and best ran music company in the industry BY FAR and better than any company I know in any industry. You have to make a lot of phone calls, but it is never cold calling. If you are serving customers and making money, no one cares how many calls you make. While every metric on the sales floor is completely transparent (everyone can see how many calls you make, how much you are selling, etc), there is no micromanagement. Unless you specifically aren't doing your job, you will only get positive feedback and great support from the management team. Outside of that, you have A LOT of freedom. If you work hard you will make a lot of money - it takes a while to build your business but from my first month actually on the phone selling I made good money. You have to know your stuff - Sales Engineers have to be able to answer questions about the 70,000 products we carry - you have to know a ton before you will get a job offer, you go through 3 months of paid training (with testing) to fill in gaps and you have to be sharp enough to figure out the rest on the fly with the many resources Sweetwater provides. Occasionally you will hear complaints pop up from unskilled labor because they don't get treated the same as the Sales Engineers. Sweetwater is great at helping their employees advance. I have never seen or heard directly of anyone being disrespected or treated poorly by management and peer disrespect is not tolerated - but they hire wonderful people so that isn't an issue. However, there is a reality that there is a huge gap between a highly trained sales staff who are all professional musicians and/or audio technicians with lots of degrees, major professional credits and Grammys and someone who just got hired away from McDonald's. I am not sure what others on this site expected from working in a professional warehouse. Chances are if you leave Sweetwater disgruntled then you didn't succeed because you didn't work hard enough or you are an entitled putz. In sales, if you work hard you will make good money, even from your first month on the floor. Because of the transparency of sales statistics and orders you can get a bad reputation and your coworkers won't have your back if you don't pull your own weigh or you try to steal sales from others. If you are a team player and work hard then your coworkers will have your back EVERY time. I left Sweetwater for medical reasons. I often missed several days a week and had doctors appointments just about every week and they went out of their way to take care of me and be flexible with my schedule. If you work hard and are a team player they will do everything they can to hook you up. The best insight I can give is I loved my time there and I look forward to coming back some day when my health issues are resolved. - lots of free stuff and great deals on gear - lots of company activities, including free trips to the zoo and amusement parks.

The income is good, but not as good as it was for certain. Industry perks of meeting people.