Musicians stay away - Sales Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

3.0
10 Dec 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good discounts when possible, good hours, fellow employees were fun, but the good ones do tend to leave, finding jobs with much better pay.

Cons

Upper management is a joke, incompetence runs rampant. If you are regular sales associate you never get commission. Lots of work for so little pay. Guitar Center companies lure you in with "great discounts", but it's not what it is hyped up to be. Insane employee turnover all the time. Sell or be sold!

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5.0
9 Jan 2026
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CEO approval
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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.

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