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      Guitar Center

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      Guitar Center reviews

      2.8

      41% would recommend to a friend

      (2,733 total reviews)
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      Gabe Dalporto

      28% approve of CEO

      24% positive business outlook

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      Guitar Center has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,733 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Guitar Center employee rating is 21% below average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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      3K reviews
      2.0
      May 27, 2010

      GC is a great place for douchebags to work

      Sales associate
      Recommend
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      Pros

      You can purchase anything new for cost, a great perk. It's a great place to build support for a band, network with other musicians, and meet women. If you have no problem selling people things they don't want or need, you'll do great at GC. If you have a soul, be prepared to lose it.

      Cons

      The pay is terrible and the level of suspicion is really obnoxious. Many of your co-workers are idiots and almost all are in their twenties and immature. It's like being in high school again. Lots of hazing and practical jokes, almost all mean spirited.

      1.0
      Apr 21, 2026

      Blame culture disguised as leadership

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      - Plenty of capable individual contributors doing real work. - The brand and the business itself are legitimate — the problems are organizational.

      Cons

      - Senior leadership is politically driven rather than outcome-driven. Strategic initiatives stall out, and leaders spend more energy assigning or shifting blame than actually diagnosing and fixing problems. - Some parts of the org operate on deference to the top. Honest assessments get softened into whatever narrative leadership wants to hear, which makes real cross-functional work difficult. - Senior leaders do not consistently advocate for their own teams. When things get political, self-preservation takes precedence over backing the people underneath, and capable managers end up exposed.

      1.0
      Aug 25, 2025

      do not recommend

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      store discount, I guess, but that's not worth it

      Cons

      Miserable experience. Management is entirely apathetic, brushes off concerns, or ignores them completely. I've heard "I don't care" more times than I can count. Despite countless attempts to speak with store management and HR, I've been ignored or told "we'll get to it" when it comes to actually getting paid for hours I have already worked. That's not how employment works, friends.

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