Overlord Vampires - Sales Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
Nov 21, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

great people up to the store management level, steep fall off at that point Discounts on gear gig leave

Cons

Literally no care for the individual here, this company has gone downhill. Fast. I worked there 10 years just for them to eliminate all full time positions along with health care in order to hit their impossible sales goals. I didn't even last a week in part time. Store managers are were completely useless, unless exploiting their workers. You would think you want people who are selling 100k of your merchandise a month for mere peanuts to be able to go to the doctor if they need to. Not here. The commission was weak, even at the top tier (Yes it's tiered you can make almost next to nothing too), which you needed to bend over backwards to please customers while maintaining the entire store. Management never made responsibility clear yet would be bothered if you didn't perform to their standards. You pretty much have to scam customers into buying an insurance even if they didn't need it. For example, you buy a harbringer speaker, it comes with a two year manufacturer warranty, you then have to sell a procoverage , guess who manufactured that speaker, ITS GUITAR CENTER. Then try to get them to get a store credit card. Imagine what a music store would be like to work at, that is not Guitar Center.

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5.0
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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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