Good People, Terrible Management - Marketing Specialist Guitar Center Employee Review

2.0
Apr 30, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- My immediate coworkers were all very cool and fun to work with. - Quarterly jam nights are always fun - Cool environment to work in aesthetically

Cons

- Terrible management and management styles - New hires would often be shuffled into departments they did not interview for - Multiple reorgs with job security always being in question - Difficult to advance in the company due to high amount of office politics - Rampant micro-management across all levels of the enterprise

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
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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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