Went from Best to Worst - Store Manager Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
Dec 28, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great hard working people that really do care about the customers.

Cons

Everything else. New Regional Management and corporate leaders are awful and want to get rid of good, hard working people who don’t sell enough warranty plans even if they are top line sales people and bring tons of other things to the table. Tenured managers being forced out to bring in cheaper outside the company help. Having your District Manager breathing down your neck constantly while trying to run a store with half of the associates you need and having hours cut constantly. More things to do than humanly possible all while having your job threatened daily because your store doesn’t have enough lessons students. It’s a miserable existence that at one time was the complete opposite.

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5.0
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Pros

Management takes good care of you

Cons

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1.0
Apr 21, 2026
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Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

- Plenty of capable individual contributors doing real work. - The brand and the business itself are legitimate — the problems are organizational.

Cons

- Senior leadership is politically driven rather than outcome-driven. Strategic initiatives stall out, and leaders spend more energy assigning or shifting blame than actually diagnosing and fixing problems. - Some parts of the org operate on deference to the top. Honest assessments get softened into whatever narrative leadership wants to hear, which makes real cross-functional work difficult. - Senior leaders do not consistently advocate for their own teams. When things get political, self-preservation takes precedence over backing the people underneath, and capable managers end up exposed.

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