Sales Associate - Sales Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

3.0
Jun 3, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Good people to work WITH. Not so much to work FOR! The discounts are pretty cool, and so is the gear! Used to be a fun place to work......

Cons

Management doesn't give a crap for their employees, because the d-bags above store level apply so much pressure to sell"Pro Coverage" they can't think of ways to be helpful to their employees. Used to be a fun place to work....

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Cons

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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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