Guitar Center reviews

2.8

41% would recommend to a friend

(2,727 total reviews)
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Gabe Dalporto

28% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

Guitar Center has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,727 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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4.0
Aug 5, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Can't speak to how it is today, but when I worked here I learned a lot. There are great employee discounts. Thanks to Delaware being a tax free state, the commission rate at this store has historically been relatively high, but I'm not sure if that has changed.

Cons

Sometimes we stayed late because there were not a lot of operations employees.

3.0
Aug 2, 2025

Discounts

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good discounts, and good people.

Cons

You know how customer service goes

2.0
Jul 31, 2025

sad

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

employee discount. its literally this. also you get to hang out in a store filled with (generally) cool coworkers.

Cons

So so so much push for pro coverage sales. and incredibly punishing as well. They want you to be above like 35% to be eligible for commission, as of when I last worked there, You need to sell $375 per hour to make 1% commission. I'm not kidding. So, if you know you will be in an area that isn't crazy busy, good luck

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