Swensons Reviews

3.1

58% would recommend to a friend

(157 total reviews)

Jeff Flowers

64% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Swensons has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 157 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Swensons employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurants and food service industry (3.7 stars).

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157 reviews
1.0
22 Dec 2015

Treated liked dirt

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Half off on food, and after a year you get free food.

Cons

Senior management treats literally everyone else like trash. They often will call you in on a day off, and realize that was a mistake and immediately send you back home. Working lunch shifts usually is a 1 or 2 hour shift and hardly worth your time. They work you just under full time to keep you from any benefits. Senior management plays favorites pretty frequently, and will often demote of fire other managers based purely on how they feel. You'll get more than an eternity's worth of verbal abuse and insults, and raises come sparingly (meaning not at all) anymore.

1.0
29 Jan 2025

They don’t care

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you know someone who works there, the job is yours

Cons

They hire only people they know. You must be a college student to be a server despite not offering any benefits relating to being in college. There’s an odd sense of classism within the hierarchy and blatant racism. You cannot have a life outside of this place. I worked 60 hours a week for four years with no vacation time. In fact, they made me cancel my vacation in 2022 because they wanted me there for their new system installation. They threatened to refuse to pay me out my bonus for a grand opening I participated in because I needed to go home to take me sister to the hospital for two days, after I’d worked 80 hrs a week for 3 weeks during the covid lockdown.

1.0
11 Nov 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free lunch (though it’s after the lunch rush from the stand next door), Internal Secret Shopper program.

Cons

Management doesn’t care about keeping agreements with employees. They also want more than 40 hours of work completed inside 40 hours. HR puts out new handbook memos late on Friday’s. If you’re low level, they legitimately don’t care about how much work you have. Management also doesnt bother trying to understand how each employee fits in the big picture. They used to live by their company values, but now they’re a “big company” who just has pretty words on the wall like every other company.

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