Good Employee Discounts. Nothing else - Anonymous employee Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
2 Nov 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good job for discounts if your a gear head. Good insurance for full time employees. Great people to work with.

Cons

No respect from management. Nonexistent "commission". The only way to make money is to be an assisant manager, who has the ability to manually discount anything in the store. There is no way the average employee can compete with this. Customers will abandon the hardworking salesman to purchase from a mgr who can "give them a deal". This happens more often than you think.

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Pros

Very flexible with hours working.

Cons

Difficult to stray away from Hal Leonard curriculum sometimes, but may be different now.

3.0
1 Jul 2026
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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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