Do not work here! - Anonymous employee Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
Apr 10, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The discount is great and you find a lot of networking opportunities if you're a musician aside from that there's really not much good to be said

Cons

Management is something out of a nightmare, the company has zero respect for their employees, they refuse to give more than 20 hours a week to anyone regardless of how knowledgeable they are or how long they've been with the company, the commission rate is embarrassingly low starting at 0.25%, management spends more time blaming others for their shortcomings than they do actually finding solutions, and to top it off there is zero opportunity to move up in this company.

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Cons

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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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