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Musician's Friend

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Musician's Friend reviews

2.7

35% would recommend to a friend

(115 total reviews)

Greg Trojan

34% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

Musician's Friend has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 115 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Musician's Friend employee rating is 30% below average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.9 stars).

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115 reviews
1.0
Feb 16, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Discounts on gear. Some decent coworkers.

Cons

Relies on a corporate model that just doesn't work for this type of business and it is failing the company as a whole. The computer programs used fail constantly to the frustration of everyone. The training session was super cheesy and inadequate for what they expect when you get out on the floor. SUPER high turnover, even at the CEO level! Rude, clueless customers. The list goes on and on..

3.0
Dec 16, 2014

Eh.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Co-workers were very fun.

Cons

Management was not very enjoyable. Played favorites. Did not want to help you learn, etc.

1.0
Aug 27, 2014

Heartbreakingly sad, this company could be so much more than it is!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of great people to work with and there's a jam room to play instruments on during breaks! Talking music all day and helping out musicians is really rewarding. Plus, if you're a musician, you get an awesome employee discount.

Cons

A good portion of the management is really great to work with, but some of the higher ups are horrible. I watched this company go from a wonderful place to work to a corporate scum hole that treated everyone like dirt. Great people were let go who should have been kept, and they stuck so much to their policies that they fired anyone and everyone who didn't fit in, including their top performers. After that happened, they really started to slide down hill and no one could understand why the numbers weren't lining up with their projections after they started firing people who put up numbers and were fabulous with the customers. They changed the pay structure so many times and the horribly scary part is that it's all done in Excel with a reporting machine they know cranks out false numbers all the time. In addition to that, as you go up in management, you're expected to stay later and dedicate more hours to the company. If your spouse doesn't understand why you have to take a call in the middle of the night and go into work to fix something, this isn't the company for you. There's also the wonderful expectation that you can only use your vacation and sick hours when the company doesn't have business needs. Of course the needs are always there so you can never go! I lost so many hours just because they couldn't justify their business needs with my needs to go see a doctor or to go on vacation. Probably just as well with the vacation hours since you're expected to be on call and answer your phone and email.

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Glassdoor has 117 Musician's Friend reviews submitted anonymously by Musician's Friend employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Musician's Friend is right for you.