I have learned a lot over the years, but there is tremendous change going on and many of us are being laid off. - Anonymous employee Guitar Center Employee Review

2.0
28 Dec 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There is mostly good comraderie among the employees and it's a great place to be if you like to be around music equipment and musicians. There is growth opportunity available if you are great in sales.

Cons

There aren't really any real cons that I know of. There is a lot of change going on at the management office, and as they attempt to consolidate the various divisions some people are getting laid off or outsourced. So it depends upon which side of the change you are on.

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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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