Easy job for musicians but doesn't pay well and sales expectations are unrealistic - Sales Lead Guitar Center Employee Review

3.0
Feb 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Easy, around music, good coworkers

Cons

Low salary, some bad customers that make your days rough, management has unrealistic expectations and will punish you for not meeting them. They make the job more difficult by micromanaging and introducing flawed systems. You have to deal with people selling stuff constantly, it's time consuming as you have to test every product and sometimes people bring in boxes of stuff and then complain about your offer.

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3.0
Jul 1, 2026
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Pros

Sweet deals and discounts Coworkers are very pleasant to work with Good as extra income Good for aspiring musicians to network with experts of the industry

Cons

Obsolete softwares Scheduling system software that is thenmost imperative tool as of it will be the backbone of a lesson lead for your team of instructors success it's also somewhat obsolete amd constantly crashing both IT and Upper management are aware. IT is very diligent and pleasant to work with but Upper management expects their lessons lead to work and deliver at 100% capacity while they continue to have an operating system that only works at 75% capacity, just beware of that and if you're willing to work under those conditions. With that put there go at your own discretion. Nobody gets Christmas/winter holiday vacation time off, also go at your own discretion on that one especially if you have kids and family looking for work-life-balance.

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