Guitar Center - Long Time Employee Review - Sales Manager Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
Nov 4, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Working alongside a sales staff comprised of incredible musicians and local industry professionals. The ability to network with fellow musicians inside and outside of work. Getting to inspire and educate first time musicians and customers new to the music industry. Great insurance benefits for full time employees. Fair vacation, sick, and unpaid time off.

Cons

There is a lack of effective leadership from upper corporate management. Flawed commission structure for sales associates. Tools put in place to streamline and expedite the sales experience are completely ineffective and inefficient. The training for new employees is minimal and there is no dedicated training manager. Sales associates don't make commission for the first 90 days of employment but are required to make sales and achieve sales goals.

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5.0
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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
Jul 1, 2026
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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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