I was really excited for this opportunity, hearing great things about Sweetwater and loving music and the industry.
Honestly it was a big let down on almost all fronts. I'll try to break it down so it's easy to read.
Cons:
They will Wonderlic test you. And they care about the results. As an experienced Software Engineer I found the elementary school level questions somewhat insulting (i.e. "Which number is larger, 0.1 or 0.01"?).
Compensation isn't adequate for the position/modern technologies being used unless they want employees with no experience (see below).
Tech Leadership has no experience with the technologies they want to start using.
Vacation time offered was 5 days a year, the lowest by far I have ever seen in Software Development.
Company wants to throw developers at the project and will "hire QA later", no release cycles, really just a lot of cowboy coding and position abuse (devs are QAs, BAs and designers)
No working from home.
Business casual attire and looking over your shoulder all the time (i.e. salaried workers get reprimanded for using phones/personal sites "during work").
They won't ask you to display any sort of coding ability whatsoever, maybe this is a pro for the less skilled?
Pros:
Generous interview process with food and lodging.
Beautiful facilities.
They at least _want_ to modernize the P&T team, and application.
Overall there was a positive culture and I'd like to hope they will improve compensation and some of the quite draconian aspects of both the position and the hiring process. If they did I'd give them another shot.