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Sweetgreen Environment Employee Reviews

What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

the belief in the mission and ability to work autonomously

Review from Executive Dept

Its passion to grow people and give back to the community

Review from Operations Dept

Everyone is particularly mission-driven and devoted to moving the company forward.

Review from Marketing Dept

Energetic and young team who are genuine in their approach. Great group of founders.

Review from Executive Dept

people believe in each other and value opinions and are transparent

Review from Operations Dept

Positive energy and that the values are regularly acted upon and discussed as part of daily decision making. This is true at various levels of the org; not just execs.

Review from Engineering Dept

The sense of purpose among the team and a desire to do good work

Review from Design Dept

Staying true to the original company mission.

Review from Operations Dept

We are allowed to be ourselves from how we dress to allowing a positive work/life harmony

Review from Operations Dept

i like that we are focused on social impact

getting to work with really smart, motivated, like minded people. everyone seems connected to the mission.

Review from Product Dept

Shared passion in the mission

Review from HR Dept

I feel like I'm truly part of it, empowered to change it how I see fit.

Review from Engineering Dept

People care about each other for who they are as people, not just what they can produce. This is what we need to protect as we scale.

Review from HR Dept

Company culture is strong and collaborative. Enjoy family meetings and employee hosted events. Nice that many employees are encouraged to have a voice and impact change.

Review from Marketing Dept

People seem to be fairly positive

Review from Operations Dept

Everyone is passionate about sweetgreen's mission

Review from Product Dept

There is a culture of innovation that makes you excited about the future of food

Review from HR Dept

Friendly, positive, genuine and development/learning oriented

Review from Operations Dept

everyone tries to include everyone

Review from Design Dept

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

Planning of more realistic timelines. Working towards meeting the shortest conceivable timeline is good as a goal, but disregarding history and ignoring the reality of new initiatives and changes, in favor of boosting projected numbers, sets us up to fail at the first sign of an unexpected issue.

Review from Design Dept

Streamline the amount of initiatives we are focused on and ownership for those initiatives. Multi threaded ownership and the relative immaturity of our talent base ensures that we cannot movie quickly or effectively to meet executive priorities

Review from Product Dept

It's hard to believe but perhaps things are too laissez faire, and we need more discipline. We need stronger leaders and product managers to steer the ship and keep us on course. We need more team and culture building, and more moments to come together, perhaps on a daily basis.

Review from Marketing Dept

Stop chasing what every other

Review from Marketing Dept

Review Sentiment at Sweetgreen

86
86%
14
14%

About Sweetgreen's Environment

A-
76/100

Where This Score Ranks Sweetgreen's Environment

TOP
15%

In the Top 15% of 2025 similar size companies on Comparably

TOP
25%

In the Top 25% of 318 companies in Los Angeles

3rd

3rd place versus 5 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at Sweetgreen is considered positive by 85% of employees and regarded as having an “extremely fast” work pace by 44 employees. Relative to its competitors, Starbucks, Chipotle, Tender Greens, Panera Bread, and Shake Shack, Sweetgreen's environment score ranks in 3rd place. This also puts them in the Top 15% of 2025 similar sized companies (1,001-5,000 Employees) on Comparably and Top 25% of 318 companies in Los Angeles.

Rate Environment the Highest

  • Department - HR
    +8%
  • Department - Engineering
    +7%
  • Ethnicity - Hispanic or Latino
    +5%

Rate Environment the Lowest

  • Department - Design
    -13%
  • Department - Marketing
    -9%
  • Department - Finance
    -6%

How Sweetgreen's Environment Score is Calculated

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Results from 84 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

AnswerPercent
7 or less0%
823%
1051%
1219%
More than 127%
On average, how many hours do you work a day?
AnswerPercent
Extremely fast52%
Comfortably fast36%
Moderate11%
A bit slow0%
Bureaucratic1%
What's the work pace at your company?
AnswerPercent
Positive85%
Negative15%
Is your work environment positive or negative?
AnswerPercent
Yes27%
No73%
Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
AnswerPercent
Yes65%
No35%
Do you have a close friend at work?
AnswerPercent
5% or Less69%
5-10%18%
10-25%11%
25-50%2%
50%+0%
What % of the time are you bored at work?
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