ALL Managers should be required to get extensive training! - Anonymous employee Guitar Center Employee Review

4.0
Aug 2, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Guitar Center is one of the coolest places to work. It has an unconventional work environment, while encouraging musical growth of it's employees. I work here because I love the environment, the company and I believe in our business model.

Cons

Guitar Center has a horrible habit of promoting within even though the employee hasn't demonstrated the necessary ability to exercise good judgement & a solid work ethic to lead a team of people and guarantee grow & success of it's stores. Guitar Center also has a habit of constantly changing policies & procedures by implementing changes that are mundane & ineffective while juggling all of the other task associated with running the store.

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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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