Guitar Center reviews

2.8

41% would recommend to a friend

(2,728 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 2,728 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
Jul 15, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The teachers are fun, creative and talented people.

Cons

Filthy store--no cleaning budget, broken equipment, selling broken merchandise, no diversity, expected blind loyalty

1.0
Jul 11, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Employee discount, most coworkers are amazing people

Cons

How do we even begin? This place has been slowly chipping away at labor and commission and putting unbearable pressure on staff to produce more and more and more. It’s never enough! Meetings consisted of corporate trigger words and regurgitated nonsense on a weekly basis, essentially monkeys ooing and aaahing “ooo loOK biG nUmBur, vErY NiCE (clap clap)”. We need 3 completely different systems to do one simple task and it’s embarrassing to have billionaire company with such antiquated systems, the new systems suck too don’t worry! Stupid little updates that no one asked for yet the ONE function we did ask for over and over again for years is unattainable for some reason apparently. Ask yourselves why only 3/15 stores have your arbitrary minimum number, it’s because it’s impossible to actually do business with you! You rely on the perfect scenario that only exists in your head to pan out with real lives, it’s insane! I also had the laziest store manager in existence. Would sit in their office all day and look at gear and cars they wanted, always taking personal calls. Would complain that no one had their work ethic but they’d do everything to get out of doing anything. Severely misunderstands what a store manager actually means; you’re gonna have to burn sometimes, you’re gonna have to pick up calls and make sales too. Especially when there’s 1 person on the floor.

5.0
Jul 11, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Discounts and meeting musicians daily

Cons

Not to many cons maybe just low base pay

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