Guitar Center stretches the sales associate too thin - Pro Audio Department Manager Guitar Center Employee Review

2.0
Nov 3, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

-You get to meet a lot of musicians and customers that you start to build relationships with -Fun environment, so much gear to play with and demo -A lot of fellow assocaites are fun to work with -If you work very hard at building a client base and your manager lets you come in at random times to do a sale, and you sacrifice your life/work balance you can make a decent living

Cons

-for the amount of work you have to do the company definitely needs to pay more -they give you about 15 things to do like merchandise gear all while trying to build a client base and sell gear -online competition is rapidly wiping out profit margins which in turn puts less money in your pocket

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
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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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