Guitar Center reviews

Management has a meticulous fascination with metrics and statistics rather than sheer sales numbers. My store manager was extremely dogmatic towards certain employees, fostering an environment of poor morale. The overwhelming majority of coworkers were dissatisfied with pressure to reach unrealistic store-wide performance goals, and most fellow employees had desire to leave.

Very low pay to performance ratio. Non-existant management track. Cold calling. Used car sales lot environment. Cult-like slogans and reluctance to question policies. Unnecessarily competitive. 1.5% of gross and 10% of gp (gross profit) usually=peanuts. You must "fade" past $6 and hour salary, meaning the percentages apply to your salary first. Turnover is high enough that there is no incentive to change these policies. I went in thinking this would be something akin to the management training track my mom went into at Federated Department Stores after college. I was wrong.