Sales Associate applicants have rated the interview process at Guitar Center with 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 61% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Sales Associate roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 119 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Guitar Center overall takes an average of 16 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Guitar Center as a Sales Associate according to 119 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 27%
Phone interview: 11%
Drug test: 11%
Group panel interview: 11%
Skills test: 10%
Background check: 9%
Personality test: 8%
Presentation: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Other: 3%
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The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Guitar Center (Syracuse, NY) in Jan 2011
Interview
The manager and another man (who i assume to be the assistant manager asked a few questions about effects pedals, like what type of effects are there? what are the typical string sizes for electric and acoustic guitars?, name a few effects pedals that you are familiar with. Other than that not much was asked. The rest of things that were asked were vague and hard to answer. I assumed that a position would be offered to me on the spot like they usually are at this store (i spoke with several other employees previous to the interview and all of them returned that they were offered the assumed position at the end of the interview.) However, they said they'd call back in 5-7 days which is understandable. The technical questions were easy but the vague questions were hard to answer...
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What are some brands of pedals that you are familiar with?
Well thought out interview pretty easy, I thought it went well but didn't get offered a position. I still feel like they are a good company although I heard they changed there commission structure in the past few years.
Simple and to the point. They want to know if you fit into the company culture. They also want to know what your skill set is as far as musical ability. It is very easygoing and relaxed
I interviewed at Guitar Center (North Olmsted, OH)
Interview
Felt like I was being interrogated or discriminated against, as if this were an important career. Dude, you hire high school students. Give me a break. Avoid applying to guitar center.