Swoon reviews

3.4

58% would recommend to a friend

(18 total reviews)

Michelle Baker

62% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

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1.0
Mar 2, 2025

RUN!

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Pros

When I first joined which was in the middle of the pandemic, it was everything I needed at the time since the world was in pure chaos. A job where I could work remotely from anywhere and make decent money was exactly what I needed.

Cons

Micro-managing- Managers will track what time your signing on and off regardless of performance. No work life balance: its EXPECTED of employees to work long nights and weekends. If you’re not doing so leadership will say you’re not in it to win it. No diversity: The company loves to brag about being a woman run business, but all the women in positions of power are White. There are about 5 Black employees TOTAL at the company. Very few Brown or Asian faces as well. Metrics: The metrics are impossible to reach. They do not care about the market or trends you’re expected to perform. No room for growth: Theres absolutely no opportunity for growth here. Constant changes: I had 6 managers in less than 4 years. I was once told by a member of leadership that I did not make “f*ck you money” so my opinion did not matter. It’s a toxic environment.

2.0
Jul 17, 2024

Honest review from sales

Recommend
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Pros

You can make great commission if you work hard but a lot of things are out of your control in staffing. Decent PTO and anniversary gifts/incentives are desirable. That's about where my excitement begins and ends. Swoon has gone down hill very fast in the last year as the low reviews show but management is turning a blind eye and acting like we should be fortunate to work here.

Cons

Read the reviews. The only 5 star reviews are so obviously written by management. Obvious favorites when it comes to giving out accounts that need support. Most sales reps don't make it too long, their goals are impossible to reach in a 40 hour work week and training is a joke. CRM is trash and does not sync to email so a lot of time is spent on admin work. I've personally experienced having several different managers to report to over a 5 year tenure and KPIs change often for sales. Beware of PIPs which management think will motivate you but it really just makes you feel unvalued and wanting to leave. Doing your best is never good enough, I'm exhausted.

2.0
May 29, 2024

Waking Up After I Swooned

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

• You get your own cell phone and laptop, so you can disconnect on the weekends (they do push weekend work/praise employees who work after hours, though it’s not required) • The moments that I was liked at this company felt really good • You can make some decent money • Good health insurance, good PTO (sometimes I felt guilted for using PTO, but not all the time) • Some people in this company are sweet and hard working - this was nice to see because I felt like this company does back up a lot of abrasive hard-working people because they’re “getting the job done,” but these other people have modeled for me personally that you can be kind and get the job done too • If you do like a hybrid model, the office has a nice layout and nice corporate interior design

Cons

I was confused with how I was treated during this position. This was tough for me, as I wanted to get along well with senior leadership but found myself micromanaged most of the time. I felt I was constantly walking on eggshells around them and didn’t know which version of them I’d get each day. Feeling like I was good enough was sparse, even though I was either at or ahead of my financial goals much of the time. There would be times where I would be ahead of my financials, meeting my weekly metrics, and senior leadership would be checking on me and asking about my activity every day, sometimes twice a day. Once, when I confronted a director about how I felt I was being treated, they avoided accountability and basically just said that was their personality. • Gradually increased job demands (which made it harder for employees to succeed), blamed employees for not keeping up, and then put them on performance improvement plans if they were not able to keep up with the new changes • Felt that managers started doing mostly the critiquing side of managing; calling out what needed to be better all the time. There were multiple great accomplishments I made that I felt were not treated with the same energy as my relatively small mistakes were • There were some calls I had with different people in leadership where I felt micromanaged and reprimanded to the point of noticing my hands shaking after the call • Lack of diversity: the majority of this company is white employees - I’m white and the lack of diversity felt unnerving • Communication in the workplace often took on an infantilizing tone, where it seemed that management addressed employees as if they lacked understanding. Rather than engaging in the necessary work to foster a genuinely positive work environment, it appeared that they relied on superficial gestures like smiling and laughing to mask underlying issues • During an all hands call, our president said something along the lines of that she “misses when we were so busy that recruiters were screaming for help.” I got where she was going with this, but hearing this felt like my distress was something to be championed for, which left me feeling quite uneasy

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