Easy job for musicians but doesn't pay well and sales expectations are unrealistic - Sales Lead Guitar Center Employee Review

3.0
Feb 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Easy, around music, good coworkers

Cons

Low salary, some bad customers that make your days rough, management has unrealistic expectations and will punish you for not meeting them. They make the job more difficult by micromanaging and introducing flawed systems. You have to deal with people selling stuff constantly, it's time consuming as you have to test every product and sometimes people bring in boxes of stuff and then complain about your offer.

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5.0
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Pros

Got to work with so many people

Cons

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1.0
Jun 29, 2026
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Pros

Employee discounts are the biggest reason why people work here, as the discount is really good.

Cons

Your experience working at Guitar Center will largely depend on which store you work at. Some stores have a good management team and employees and are fun to work at. But a lot of stores do not have a qualified management team and they have a staff that is not fun to work with. My location needed a new store manager and instead of promoting the ops manager who knew the store better than anyone else and was with the company for 15+ years working at multiple locations, corporate instead promoted a customer service lead who had been with the company less than 2 years and didn't have management experience. These are the people that corporate decides so often to run their stores.

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