Bad company - Anonymous employee Guitar Center Employee Review

2.0
Apr 10, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Gig leave, flexible schedules, working around instruments, commission pay

Cons

Everyone higher up at the company is so disconnected from what it's like in stores and keep cutting hours also creating more workload from stores. Unrealistic expectations. Saw 2 female employees get treated so poorly by both the company and customers in my time here. A lot of the other associates and the sales manager did not care about anything. Some very unhappy people working here.

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Pros

Sweet deals and discounts Coworkers are very pleasant to work with Good as extra income Good for aspiring musicians to network with experts of the industry

Cons

Obsolete softwares Scheduling system software that is thenmost imperative tool as of it will be the backbone of a lesson lead for your team of instructors success it's also somewhat obsolete amd constantly crashing both IT and Upper management are aware. IT is very diligent and pleasant to work with but Upper management expects their lessons lead to work and deliver at 100% capacity while they continue to have an operating system that only works at 75% capacity, just beware of that and if you're willing to work under those conditions. With that put there go at your own discretion. Nobody gets Christmas/winter holiday vacation time off, also go at your own discretion on that one especially if you have kids and family looking for work-life-balance.

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