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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3K reviews
3.0
Apr 14, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Learned a lot about gear, met a lot of great people. Decent gear discounts.

Cons

Middle management can be purgatory if you are not willing to "move anywhere, anytime". Terrible selection these days, products needs to be more catered to the service area. If you want to move up to be a store manager or above you have to submit to upper management that you are willing to be uprooted and placed in a store anywhere in the country.

4.0
Apr 10, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Everyone that works for Guitar Center is generally passionate about music and very friendly and helpful. Everyone is not just trying to make a sale but they are trying to help people get into music or follow their passions. Love working for them

Cons

The pay could be better. The Guitar technician, at least at our store, is overworked to death! The clienteling that we have to do is pretty annoying and some of the corporate guidlines we have to adhere to are annoying, too. Nothing that bad though.

3.0
Apr 8, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-huge discount on gear. That was the only perk of working there. I can't remember the exact percent but its a pretty big discount.

Cons

-Not a lot of hours - A lot of employees have no communication - A lot of work for little pay Was very disappointed of the hours I was getting. At one point, I was working one day a week. Not cool.

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