Guitar Center is a place where an uneducated musician can make a living if you are willing to put in the work. - Store Manager Guitar Center Employee Review

3.0
6 Aug 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Provides you with an opportunity to work with lots of talented musicians and customers where you can make lasting connections in the music world. Its also a great place to get a free education on music equipment if you stay long enough and pay attention to whats being taught. If you move up you will make good money.

Cons

As a salesperson you will struggle to make money at first and a lot of the new policies are designed to make sure the ground level sales associate doesn't make too much money. The freedom to think for yourself as a manager and make decisions has been taken away and replaced with cookie cutter answers laid out by upper level management. Daily life is very micro managed

Explore other reviews about Guitar Center

5.0
9 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Got to work with so many people

Cons

Long hours during holidays were rough

1.0
29 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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.

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All