Guitar Center reviews

- Compensation is initially miserable for sales staff, sales people earn the larger of absolute minimum wage or your commission. People who are paid commission are said to have “faded”. - Salespersons have to do 2 things if they want to keep their jobs: 1. You have to sell enough stuff so that the commission is greater than your minimum wage. 2. You have to meet your target for selling extended warranties. Sales employees are responsible for sending contacting customers weekly. They are also expected to maintain client lists, complete training modules on new products, stock shelves, clean each area daily, read all information sent out through the mail system and answer phones. All of these activities take you away from selling to customers, and make it harder to make commission. - Many activities such as E-learning would best be done at home, away from the store. I have worked on other jobs that offered a small bonus for E-leaning on your own time. - If you only have 90 days to “fade”, and you are on a reduced commission until complete certain training goals. SInce you have to spend work time taking the courses to become qualified, it is very hard to survive the cut unless you come into the job with a lot of selling skill and experience. - You will be competing for sales with all the other personnel.

The management was awful. You are paid by your commission minus your hourly wage, then taxed as a "bonus" at almost 40%. Lowest performers were laid off every month