Good if you want to get started - Operations Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

3.0
Sep 6, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you are actively doing music the company will do it's best to be flexible enough to accommodate you and your time. Employee discounts are a plus. You can meet all types of people from around the world who enter your store.

Cons

Management, management, management. Some managers sucked while others were awesome. There were times in which I felt that certain people didn't deserve to be in the positions of authority that they were in. Some shady workplace business (people messing around with each other and it tricking down to the other employees. Not professional but that's retail.

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Guitar Center Response
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Thanks for the review and mentioning our respect for the working musician. We off a unique leave to those in the industry called Gig Leave for tours, recording, etc! I'm not sure what you mean by "messing around" but if you mean what I think you do -- I'd like to chat. Please call 818-735-8800.

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