Guitar Center is Fun....but wouldn't recommend as a career choice. - Warehouse Manager Guitar Center Employee Review

4.0
Jan 26, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

if you love music, you are around it all day! On slow days you can just find an instrument and jam with other employees or customers. You get to meet alot of interesting people though the business and the discount on merchendice is AMAZING. Makes it hard to ever want to pay for retail pricing again on music stuff. I worked in the back side of things so my hours were 8-5 which was nice, sales staff works longer more un-traditional shifts.

Cons

The hours worked during the holiday season are busy and hectic as with any retail industry position. !

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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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