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

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
Aug 16, 2013

Fun but underpaid.

Recommend
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Pros

Good discount on music gear. Working with like-minded people (for the most part). Decent environment, great co-workers.

Cons

IT position is extremely underpaid (below 10% of state average) with excessive work and responsibility. Working with outdated technology from the 80's. Slowly upgrading to modern tech, however. Very, very little room for any career advancement. Many IT jobs are outsourced.

1.0
Jul 26, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Family environment among the workers, employee discount, customer relationships are great but they don't see value in anything besides numbers.

Cons

Compensation is not at all fair. Many of us have to work 2 or 3 jobs just to pay our rent and feed ourselves. Company is moving into the future of Multi-channel but leaving it's greatest asset (the employees) behind while our executives make larger bonuses every year. Wage system is set up for us to not earn money. Our biggest online competitor is Musicians Friend, many customers come in and get our expertise but then go and purchase online instead because it's cheaper. The only problem is that Guitar Center owns Musicians friend so, GC wins, the customer gets a better deal but us sales associates are the only ones getting screwed. I earn GC about $120,000 a year in profit but they pay me about 14k annually. Thats paying me 15% of what I earn them, how is that justified. There "you decide your own paycheck, and fake open-door policy" is nothing more than to put the poor wages on the employee not the employer.

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