It can be a very cool place to work, with great people and a lot of opportunity for advancement. - Operations Manager Guitar Center Employee Review

3.0
May 12, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Enthusiastic coworkers and customers excited about music gear, a laid-back approach in most stores and throughout corporate. Employee discount is great, and generally store management will try to be accommodating of gigging schedules for performing musicians.

Cons

The pay is not great, and not worth the work you do, in every store position. Workload can be heavy, customer volume can be high, and we're chronically short-staffed because we don't pay well; and that's assuming the store is giving labor hours to schedule.

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
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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
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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