No training, awful pay and terrible upper management - Guitar Repair Tech Guitar Center Employee Review

2.0
Jul 15, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

-You get to work on a lot of interesting instruments and meet some very cool people. -The discount, if you can afford to utilize it at the level of pay they provide and still afford to live.

Cons

-Grossly unorganized in every way and at every level -Very low pay for position requiring a trade skill -No training. Like, at all. Not for repair and maintenance skills, not for the POS system or Greenscreen or anything else. Literally none. Not very little. None. -The benefits package is terrible. -Incredibly poor upper management. (Store manager and above) -Very corporate minded environment. -Low amount of *honest* communication. I.e. there’s a lot of beating around the bush.

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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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