Great atmosphere, but terrible place to work - Department Manager Guitar Center Employee Review

2.0
Sep 23, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Networking with other musicians, being around some cool gear, knowing the latest gear to come out, super good discounts. People looked up to you.

Cons

Terrible pay, WAYYY over worked, countless metrics and quotas that are required to be hit on a monthly basis, micro managed, low accountability.

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Cons

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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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