Horrible Place to Work - Anonymous employee Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
Jan 11, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

They had great discounts for their employees.

Cons

There was no leadership or guidance in my job. There were a lot of politics in my department...a lot of cliques. It was a very immature place to work. They gave me a boss that had no clue what my job entailed. I would never go back. The worst job in my life!

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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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