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      No way to earn a promotion without good credit... - Sales Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

      2.0
      Oct 29, 2011
      Sales associate
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Great discounts on gear, work with awesome people from all sectors of music, and get to play a lot of nice instruments when ever it's dead.

      Cons

      Can't get promoted without good credit. So if you don't make enough in commission to cover debt, you're hit with your credit, which leads no promotion to make more to help your credit. Compensation is minimal at best. It's set up for you to do a lot of work and make as little money as possible... Too many people drink the coolaid that corporate spreads around. Nearly everyone wants something better.

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      5.0
      Feb 5, 2026
      Sales associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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
      Apr 21, 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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