Become a private company jerks!! - Sales Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

5.0
Jan 14, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Depending on the location, Guitar Center is a great place to work. If you know about gear, love music, and working with musicians it's even better. The environment is upbeat, diverse, a lot of noise, and deal making. The Labor Day Sale when everything is cleared out of the warehouse and brought onto the floor is the best. Management is great at motivating and building rapport with the sales associates. Everyone is willing and ready to help you out, for a cut of the sale though.

Cons

The only downside was the downside. Unless you have great connections in the industry, it's pretty tough to make a decent check on a consistent basis

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Cons

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Pros

Employee discounts are the biggest reason why people work here, as the discount is really good.

Cons

Your experience working at Guitar Center will largely depend on which store you work at. Some stores have a good management team and employees and are fun to work at. But a lot of stores do not have a qualified management team and they have a staff that is not fun to work with. My location needed a new store manager and instead of promoting the ops manager who knew the store better than anyone else and was with the company for 15+ years working at multiple locations, corporate instead promoted a customer service lead who had been with the company less than 2 years and didn't have management experience. These are the people that corporate decides so often to run their stores.

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