Great at the store level - corporate is full of scumbags - Lessons Lead Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
Feb 20, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Its an amazing experience to be surrounded by musicians and gear all day long, discounts are awesome, gain is even better. Health benefits are fantastic as well

Cons

Management from CSM and higher has always been trash, they're promote anyone to fill a slot and the store and employees suffer. Corporate is even worse, full of scum bags that will fire staff and start drama across the chain. Also once you're full time they will schedule you so you spend all your daylight at GC 5 days a week and will not work with you to accommodate.

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5.0
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Pros

Very flexible with hours working.

Cons

Difficult to stray away from Hal Leonard curriculum sometimes, but may be different now.

3.0
Jul 1, 2026
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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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