Music & Arts reviews

2.5

25% would recommend to a friend

(573 total reviews)

Jeff Gottlieb

14% approve of CEO

11% positive business outlook

Music & Arts has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 573 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Music & Arts employee rating is 29% below average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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573 reviews
1.0
Mar 19, 2022

Corporate greed

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Pros

Working with the students and the relationship with the front desk

Cons

As independent contractors we were forced to give up our status as independent contractors to become corporate employees and we took a huge pay cut. Currently if you’ve been there for a while they take anywhere from 34 to 36% of every half hour student you teach and a new person it’s 40% During the pandemic when we all went virtual they continued to take that percentage out and as the pandemic begin to subside they threaten to take away our students in the midst of forcing us to become corporate employees if we did not come back to the store. In the past of the many years that I have worked for Music And Arts and I’m sure many of my colleagues will agree when there is a rate increase for lessons some of that gets passed on to us and Music And Arts did a rating crease at the beginning of this year used our names as the instructors but pass nothing on to us. Along the way they keep changing the login system which makes it very difficult because it changes after you get used to one way it stops working and they just changed it again.

2.0
Feb 9, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Working with musicians and instruments, easy to move up, providing music education to countless students, freedom to operate at what works best for you and your team, interacting and working with music professionals who care about their craft

Cons

Expectations of what can be accomplished in an 8 hr shift are ridiculous for the low compensation. Corporate team knows nothing about how stores actually run and will push you past your limits daily. Company in flux, no real structure. Bottom dollar is only concern at the moment. Work/life balance nonexistent.

3.0
Jul 19, 2021

It's Alright

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Pros

The only reason I stayed at this company so long was because I loved my peers. The customers aren't too bad either. I was in school while I worked here, so I never moved up, but a lot of my other peers would move up to management pretty quickly. Upper management is also not too bad. When I worked there the pay wasn't great, but it's good for a part time position in college.

Cons

Work life balance isn't great. You typically work with a small team at the stores, so you have to make sure to ask for your time off way in advance. I left because I was working too much and really needed to focus on school more, and they wouldn't cut my hours like I asked. I also left because I got written up for "letting" someone steal a saxophone, when I was a 19 year old female left alone in the store. So apparently money is more important than their employees, especially considering I couldn't fight the man off... My direct supervisor didn't want to write me up, but the CEO forced him to write me up. And that was the last straw for me. Honestly, no one should be left alone in any retail store that sells merchandise worth $10k, especially if the instruments are not locked in a safe...

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