GC in " Starving your employees and destroying our good reputation" co-starring Bain Capital - Pro Audio Sales Guitar Center Employee Review

2.0
1 Jun 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great people, cool gear. Used to be a dream job for musicians. Used to have a great employee discount program.

Cons

60% pay cut from 2007 to 2015!!!! Terrible logistics No foresight from upper management, we got destroyed in the e-commerce space by Amazon, Sweetwater and just about everyone else. Nearly all of us vet GC guys that remember the good old days are gone.

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You get a good discount

Cons

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3.0
1 Jul 2026
Recommend
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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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