Horrible company to work for. I've seen many tenured salesmen and women let go in a second for absolutely no reason - Anonymous employee Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
Jan 31, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some Flexible scheduling (minus weekends)

Cons

-No communication from management -there are literally 10 people in "management" positions in store above you. Dept managers. Assistant managers. Ops managers. Store managers. General managers. Not to mention the regional manager will often come by to destroy morale. -care about nothing but money -fired me a weed after buying a house for selling too much when they were considering switching to hourly based on how much salesmen sold -they lie. Plain and simple

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Cons

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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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