Guitar Center reviews

2.8

41% would recommend to a friend

(2,728 total reviews)
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28% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

Guitar Center has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,728 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Guitar Center employee rating is 21% below average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Nov 7, 2025

CEO and His Lending Tree Boys

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You’re not being chased by bears.

Cons

Upper management is completely untrustworthy and have no idea what they’re doing. CEO thinks he’s a rockstar and his boys are just yes men without a clue. They do not care about their employees. The only employees they like and promote are the snakes. The most undeserving, backstabbing, and conniving people are the ones who move up. Don’t trust anybody.

1.0
Sep 24, 2025

They do not care about employees

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

On and store level you will enjoy just about all of your coworkers and you get to talk about music all day. That’s where the pros stop.

Cons

Corporate will claim they are not making money and cut hours allocated to stores just about every month. They will claim it’s that people don’t want work as a way to manipulate their customers into blaming the employees in front of them. It seems as if the real reason they cut hours is because they continue to throw corporate parties and events so that the current ceo and upper management can play music with random celebrities as if they were the kid in school who had to buy friends.

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