Great on a small scale, but disconnect between management and employees - Sales Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

3.0
Oct 21, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great treatment of employees, good discounts, opportunities, very flexible hours. They even allow special time off for bands to go on tour, great employee benefits. Amazing people, great place to make friends with co-workers and customers alike.

Cons

Regional and district managers do nothing to help their stores, only reap the benefits of when they perform well. This, as of late, has lead to a big push for constant growth in numbers, even after the 'rockstar' bubble in popular media that helped the company rise in the ranks has busted. (Tenacious D, School of Rock, Guitar Hero) Also a lack of any form of progression within the company once the level of Assistant Manager is reached.

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5.0
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Recommend
CEO approval
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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
CEO approval
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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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