They do not care about employees - Sales Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
24 Sept 2025
Recommend
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Pros

On and store level you will enjoy just about all of your coworkers and you get to talk about music all day. That’s where the pros stop.

Cons

Corporate will claim they are not making money and cut hours allocated to stores just about every month. They will claim it’s that people don’t want work as a way to manipulate their customers into blaming the employees in front of them. It seems as if the real reason they cut hours is because they continue to throw corporate parties and events so that the current ceo and upper management can play music with random celebrities as if they were the kid in school who had to buy friends.

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5.0
5 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

*friendly environment *great discount deal *lots of opportunities to connect *Good opportunity to get comission *Tour Leave

Cons

*hours / shifts get cut *Sometimes understaffed, sometimes overstaffed *Competitive salaries because of selling Protection Plans, Credit Card Applications and Lessons

1.0
21 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Plenty of capable individual contributors doing real work. - The brand and the business itself are legitimate — the problems are organizational.

Cons

- Senior leadership is politically driven rather than outcome-driven. Strategic initiatives stall out, and leaders spend more energy assigning or shifting blame than actually diagnosing and fixing problems. - Some parts of the org operate on deference to the top. Honest assessments get softened into whatever narrative leadership wants to hear, which makes real cross-functional work difficult. - Senior leaders do not consistently advocate for their own teams. When things get political, self-preservation takes precedence over backing the people underneath, and capable managers end up exposed.

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