Good people on the ground floor, iron-fisted corporate management - Anonymous employee Guitar Center Employee Review

2.0
Apr 3, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

At my particular store, the employees are very tight-knit, making it an enjoyable team to be a part of. Obviously the gear and the employee discount are huge perks. It's a novel thing to be surrounded with music gear constantly.

Cons

As to be expected, low pay. Even with the new structural and payroll changes, it is a tough job for the compensation. Being retail, the customers can be difficult. Upper management has recently been employing new policies that must be followed to the letter, giving individual stores very little wiggle room or independence.

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Cons

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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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