Good Work Environment, Weird Corporate Stuff Though. - Retail Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

4.0
Aug 29, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Employee Discount -Teachers, Customers and Staff are nice, easy to work with, and care about what they do

Cons

- Corporate required us to make scripted phone calls about promotions, and often pushed us to talk customers into getting the promotions even if they said no. - The computer system is old and disorganized, and from an employee level I could tell it needed someone to go in, scrub all the old data, and make it work more efficiently.

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
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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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