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      Guitar Center

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      Guitar Center reviews

      2.8

      41% would recommend to a friend

      (2,726 total reviews)
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      Gabe Dalporto

      28% approve of CEO

      24% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.8

      Work/Life balance

      2.7

      Culture & values

      2.4

      Compensation and benefits

      2.3

      Career opportunities

      2.1

      Senior management

      Guitar Center has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,726 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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      3K reviews
      5.0
      Jan 14, 2009

      Become a private company jerks!!

      Sales associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Depending on the location, Guitar Center is a great place to work. If you know about gear, love music, and working with musicians it's even better. The environment is upbeat, diverse, a lot of noise, and deal making. The Labor Day Sale when everything is cleared out of the warehouse and brought onto the floor is the best. Management is great at motivating and building rapport with the sales associates. Everyone is willing and ready to help you out, for a cut of the sale though.

      Cons

      The only downside was the downside. Unless you have great connections in the industry, it's pretty tough to make a decent check on a consistent basis

      2.0
      Jan 13, 2009

      Decent temp job

      Sales associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      employee discount, some nice customers. Its also neat to work around the gear, seeing all the new stuff and whatnot. You also get to trie out the latest gear, which is nice.

      Cons

      hours, pay, benefits, crappy managers, all bad. It seems any retail management seems this way, though.

      2.0
      Jan 10, 2009

      It works for them.

      Sales associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It's a chance to meet other musicians with the same interest as you. You could use the product knowledge to land another job in the music industry or you could go sell cars and probably make more money. I worked with someone whose son was making more money delivering pizzas. Some think it's "cool" to work in a music store but the reality is that it's no different than any other job. It's hard for me to give best reasons to work at Guitar Center. It's worked for some people but it didn't work out for me at all. Good luck.

      Cons

      The pay versus the work. To work for commission only, with what Guitar Center pays, is a tough thing to do. Which is why they have such a high turn over rate. If you're a young, single guy or girl and you have roommates, you can probably make it work. But if you need a "real world" salary and have a family, it isn't a good move. Pretty much everything about working at Guitar Center is negative. I'm trying to meet the quote of this,so I'm going to keep typing until I make the quote they need, which will happen now.

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