They don’t care about you. - Customer Service Manager Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
24 Oct 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexible schedule and laid back attitude for entry level employees. Fairly flexible with time off requests and good discounts. Fairly quick promotion of tour are even semi competent

Cons

The upper management don’t care about what you do for the company. They only care if you are a mindless lackey. Don’t express you opinion, don’t question their decisions, never stand up for or side with the Customer. They will take someone who follows a script and makes less money then someone who has the ability to adapt in a sales environment and make more money. The management doesn’t like it when you have better ideas than they do and would prefer to tell the customer what they ant instead of listening to the customer.

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Pros

Got to work with so many people

Cons

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1.0
29 Jun 2026
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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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