Sweetwater reviews

Insurance is pretty poor. Constant up and down sales. If you don't make 90+ calls a day for your first 3-5 years, then you're not going to do well. Senior SEs watch younger SEs like a hawk. Sales management does not listen to the ideas of their employees. They don't tell the staff the true wholesale cost of items, so you're not really getting the percentage of commission you expect. Long hours. Boring meetings 3 times a week. No advancement. Management monitors you very closely. Even the food at the "Diner" is incredibly underwhelming. Very low base pay, so if you don't sell a lot, then you're going to have issues paying your bills. Very little time off. They just finished a huge expansion of the sales department, but won't expand the support staff, so many of the things that make Sweetwater better than the competitors is starting to become less reliable. The corporate atmosphere is very much cult of personality. If you don't follow the word of Chuck, you're done.

I’m not going to dive into any technical/worklife/process issues because frankly all of that pales in comparison to why I quit. I quit because despite their claims, Sweetwater does NOT have a zero tolerance policy towards harassment and discrimination and I’m proof of that. The following, up until I quit, took place over the course of about half a year. A coworker was harassing me, manipulating, and in general being extremely unprofessional. After a month or so I reported him (which honestly I didn’t even feel safe to do) and all HR did from my perspective was give him a slap on the wrist. He still worked there and there was no prevention of interactions at work so thank you for putting me in that situation. Things kept escalating, I stopped reporting because I no longer trusted HR, and eventually I reported more and interactions were finally prevented which left me wondering what it actually takes to get fired around here. He also tried to harm my reputation/credibility with lies so I decided to give HR a mountain of evidence against him just in case they didn’t believe me. Yet again, no hard consequences from my perspective, just words. So I quit because I’m not going to work for a company that keeps men like that around. A handful of months later, lo and behold, he was having issues with another woman! So what exactly did keeping him around get you? You lost a major asset (me) and you enabled him to have issues with another woman! I’m beyond words. That time-period was hell for me as I can only assume it was for the other woman. You'll never understand how hopeless and alone I felt. That’s on every single person involved in the situation who had the power to make a difference and didn’t. I’m sure Sweetwater will reply to this trying to save face but I really don’t need to be any more gaslit than I already was. Now is the time to listen, reflect, and ensure that this never happens again.