Guitar Center reviews

2.8

39% would recommend to a friend

(2,733 total reviews)
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Gabe Dalporto

29% approve of CEO

23% positive business outlook

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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2.0
Jun 22, 2022

Antiquated

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Most employees play music, occasional free events, some employee appreciation days with free food and activities.

Cons

HQ is located in the suburbs of Westlake Village, VERY LITTLE DIVERSITY (a lot of YT men), and they overwork most of their designers (whom are underpaid as well).

2.0
Feb 26, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Lots of friendly coworkers with a common passion for music. - Nice HQ! There's a cafe with relatively affordable breakfast and lunch options, lots of outdoor seating and a break room with musical instruments, ping pong table, etc. - Opportunities for promotion within your department.

Cons

- Very high turnover in certain roles and departments, which leads to bad (or in some cases, non-existent) onboarding experience. This high turnover can also result in overwhelmed, unfocused and indecisive leadership, which in turn leads to stressed out and scrambling teams with poor work/life balance. - Siloed departments. - Lots of meetings (but maybe this is a positive for some?) - Pay was below competitive market rate when I was there, and the other benefits didn't make up for low base salary. Bottom line: From what I gathered, your experience at Guitar Center - and whether it ends up being positive or negative - is largely dependent on the team you join. Exercise caution if the team you are joining has high turnover.

1.0
Dec 30, 2021

Cut pay during pandemic

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great students, help building studio

Cons

Cut pay during pandemic. They claimed it was to restructure to give us benefits, but this meant I was only seeing a fraction of what I was charging for students.

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