Sweetwater reviews

4.2

81% would recommend to a friend

(541 total reviews)
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Mike Clem

90% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Sweetwater has an employee rating of 4.2 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 24% above average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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541 reviews
1.0
Feb 3, 2026

Cultish Atmosphere

Recommend
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Pros

It’s never too late to leave the company.

Cons

They flood your ears with promises of large sums of money and gear. Once you finish with training, they inform you that first year salary projections are around $20k. They promised to reimburse for moving fees and never did. If they don’t like you or if you show any sign of disapproval for the religious training they force you into, they will fire you. They did this to me and offered a part time job making far less than was livable to make sure I wasn’t getting unemployment.

2.0
Nov 5, 2025

Amazing if you gaslight yourself

Recommend
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Pros

This is a wonderful place if you have corporate ambitions and are able to screw others and yourself over in the process. Nice facility and amenities.

Cons

I know people who work here who are getting paid less than fast food restaurant employees, in 2025 just let that sink in. Of course in sales, your compensation depends on your abilities to manipulate a client into buying more expensive gear that they do not necessarily need. Also not a great place in terms of corporate harassment. If you are a 19-25 year-old female, you will get preyed upon by male employees in their 50's and be unable to say anything either due to their position, tenure, or connections.

2.0
Feb 22, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits, Food Court. Shops. Music.

Cons

Middle management is too busy to talk to each other. Things are changing so fast that they don't talk to each other. It's easy to blame the new person as just not getting it, rather than 2 middle managers being on the same page. They didn't need me. They made the job as complicated and redundant as possible just to make it look like they were keeping busy. When you add hundred of unnecessary steps to a task, you end up hiring more people than you need. If Sweetwater middle managers weren't so busy with tasks that didn't need to happen in the first place, they never would have hired me. They didn't need me. I didn't sign on to upload just to download just to upload just to download just to create 10 copies, eat 5 of them, and arrive at a product that would have taken less than 30 second to write out by hand, only for that product to be thrown away and seen as no longer needed the very next day. This isn't rocket science. There is no reason to make things idiotic just to make employees look busy. Just to make a task seem more important than it is. Sweetwater could save millions by getting rid of stupid tasks, and getting rid of bad managers who make everything hard just to make themselves seem important, and getting rid of the redundant employees they only need to hire because middle managers made a 30 second process into a 2 hour process. Yes, it was just that bad. Not even joking. There is a saying that everyone should meditate 1 hour a day. Except for busy people. Busy people should meditate for 2 hours a day. That goes for Sweetwater. Sweetwater needs to hire an independent auditor and project manager to look at process improvement. Every tree needs to be pruned from time to time. Otherwise the vines grow wild with thorns. That is what I saw: a thorny hedge that was hostile to new employees who were smart enough to see the hedge for the thorns. You can't reason with thorns. You either remove them, or you remove yourself.

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