Unfortunate - Anonymous employee Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
Apr 14, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Healthcare and 401k benefits (may be subject to change with the new CEO)

Cons

Used to be many more pros. It is tough to think of them because any good thing about working there is being stripped away. Recently Guitar Center has been changing a lot of company policies and position titles. Many people are getting paid less, getting their hours cut, or losing their positions. Instead of cutting budget to their Guitar Center channel, they are changing how things work that change what made Guitar Center, Guitar Center. Any of these extremely positive reviews posted here as of 2015 are false and added by Guitar Center themselves. (Hence why they are so lacking in depth.)

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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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