Very fun place to work if you are a musician! - Sales Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

4.0
Oct 12, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Cool work environment, every employee is a musician, and it's easy to get days off for 'tour leave' as long as you plan ahead. Really awesome employee discount, too!! A job here gets you experience in many areas too, i.e.. Customer Service, Sales, and Operations.

Cons

Pay is low, and it is very hard to make the commission bonus. Hard to get time off during the holidays. Employees are often left in the dark by what's going on with the corporate side of the company.

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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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