Guitar Center is a place where an uneducated musician can make a living if you are willing to put in the work. - Store Manager Guitar Center Employee Review

3.0
Aug 6, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Provides you with an opportunity to work with lots of talented musicians and customers where you can make lasting connections in the music world. Its also a great place to get a free education on music equipment if you stay long enough and pay attention to whats being taught. If you move up you will make good money.

Cons

As a salesperson you will struggle to make money at first and a lot of the new policies are designed to make sure the ground level sales associate doesn't make too much money. The freedom to think for yourself as a manager and make decisions has been taken away and replaced with cookie cutter answers laid out by upper level management. Daily life is very micro managed

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5.0
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Pros

Very flexible with hours working.

Cons

Difficult to stray away from Hal Leonard curriculum sometimes, but may be different now.

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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