Sweetwater reviews

At Sweetwater, you will probably work harder and faster than anywhere else you've ever worked. If you like a challenge, that's great, if not, then maybe not so much. Expectations are usually that tasks and projects can be completed more quickly than one can imagine (though it is interesting just how many times those deadlines are actually met). The underlying premise at Sweetwater is that "anything is possible," so it's inevitable that eventually you'll be faced with trying to make something that is seemingly impossible happen anyway.

Make no mistake, inside the cool building, nice modern decor, and people making 60K-90K a year...this is a telephone sales job in a music store. There is not much work/life balance at the beginning; it's all work, long hours, weekends, etc... Stressful environment, highly competitive, and management does not intervene between salesperson conflicts. Unless you are dedicated to making 100+ outbound calls a day, everyday for the first year, it can be difficult to earn more than $35K. While it is true there are people who have worked there for 20 years, most new hires quit within the first 2. Most sales engineers stop doing music and eventually lose interest in music once they start working at Sweetwater due to the stress of the job. While you can buy a nice house for cheap there, you may not be able to sell it when you leave Sweetwater due to the steady declining Ft Wayne economy that has been dying for the last 50 years. Once a major factory town, Ft Wayne is in the heart of America's Rust Belt.