A great opportunity for those without a college degree or saving to pay for one. - Sales Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

4.0
Jun 24, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunity to grow and move up in management. Commission can earn you decent money, especially for those without a college degree. Employee discounts are a life saver for us gear heads.

Cons

Often hard to fade (sell enough to compensate for your hours), especially in stores with limited clientele base. Work can be taxing and unrewarding for those not passionate about music. Hours are less than ideal. Most of your active day is at work. Often won't leave to go home until 930 or later. Guitar Center as a corporation is not as wholesome as I would like. The chain is very liberal and will ignore poor conduct if they sell enough. This applies to managers as well.

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
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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
Recommend
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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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