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
3.0
May 22, 2024

Cool accounts, bad management

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Pros

internationally recognized accounts casual work environment

Cons

small agency management isnt the best employees all backbite about each other twofaced

1.0
May 21, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

-wholesale discount - cool people who are also used and abused -lazy management (when they like you) (this is more of a con tbh) Only work here if you have a lot of money to spend! You can get your discount and get what you want and then get out! (Just pretend you love Sweetwater and don't tell anyone your plan! :] ) Lie and say you're from Fort Wayne and you always wanted to work at Sweetwater! Talk about how passionate you are about Sweetwater even if you have never been inside! Then lie about being a musician! You will surely get inside!

Cons

You will be underpaid. You will be overworked. You will be verbally abused. They will bully you. They will gaslight you and make you feel worthless. They will target you if they don't like you. You can try to keep your head down and over-work but they will get abused one way or another. It doesn't matter if you are an over-achiever you are still worthless to them. The campus is run like a police state, you are being watched, your keyboard strokes logged. If you dare to speak against management they will strike you down and make sure you never get a job again. The orientation is brainwashing and tries to make you drink the kool-aid. They purposely hire people who are people pleasers, people who don't question authority and narcissists! They will turn any passion for music you have and lure you in, they will use it against you to make you docile. They don't care about the local music scene only care about profiting from it. Sweetwater has no future plans for the store, the store makes very little money compared to online sales. They will phase it out because it doesn't make them enough money anymore. The certain person of title (cannot say or I will be censored) has said: "Careers don't exist" and "Don't expect to be happy" just to give you a taste of Sweetwater! Co-workers have been sexually harassed and the company always turns a blind eye and defends the perpetrators. Sweetwater is an evil company, they have an army of bootlickers ready to defend everything they do, the values they talk about are corrupt and rotten to the core because management doesn't follow them. My advice is to work in a warehouse or be a server to support your musical career not this bullcrap!

4.0
May 17, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The people you work with in the sale department are amazing. They are still some of the best friends I have, and I would visit Fort Wayne just to see them. Mike Clem is also likely the smartest person in E-commerce, and he genuinely believes in the Sales Engineer centric model, he has done amazing things to create tools that benefit the sales-marketing cooperation.

Cons

This job can burn you out. As a person with ADHD, it destroyed my competency in a few areas because I was unable to mono task for long periods of time. Since any Sales Engineer's customer can call in and make your phone ring, and your answer rate is tracked and enforced. Your attention is essentially held by the whims of the public. Then while you're being put in an environment where you're essentially blocked from mono tasking, your going to be coached to do many good proactive things that will help you earn more money, but they require time spent mono-tasking which means either showing up early or staying late inorder to get your 6 hours of available time plus actually have time to mono task the proactive stuff. My main issue is that they let the sales VP tell a few lies. I didn't know that you weren't supposed to take management at face value so I was disappointed when some changes that were promised to be fully tested and working before they were deployed were completely broken for the first week.

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