Such poor culture - Sales Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

2.0
5 Jul 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Sharing passion for music Friendly coworkers Employee discounts

Cons

ZERO training or onboarding Hazing of new employees Senior employees have priority on sales / commission opportunities Archaic software and inventory systems High sales performers set the rules of the store, not the managers. Treat new employees poorly. List goes on… GC has a monopoly on enough gear and equipment that they don’t have to innovate or treat their employees well… so they don’t.

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5.0
25 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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
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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