Guitar Center Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Good company to work with if you like working in the retail music industry. Discounts for instruments and other music gear."

"If you worked at a Guitar Center Store selling gear, then managing a store or operations warehouse, you're in luck! You can have any management position at the headquarters. Ever run a writing team before No Graduate College No You're the new director of communications.However, if you are a hired employee at the headquarters, strategically called the Support Center, without having worked at a Guitar Center Store. FORGET ABOUT ANY ADVANCEMENT."

"Fun people and cool environment if you love music."

"I've been working with GC for almost 2 years and I do enjoy the atmosphere and the people I work with. I've excelled in my talent and experience with this company because of their tools and expertise."

"Guitar Center makes it very difficult to be a real professional sales person as you spend most of your time doing merchandising and or doing things unrelated to selling and which don't make you money. The system also takes money away from you if the client you sell to returns items even at other locations even though you did your job. They also require you to do work that does not make you commission and which also makes it more difficult to reach you commission goal."

What do you like about working at Guitar Center?

"I liked that I had an opportunity to work with something I love. I got to try out the latest and greatest in gear. I enjoyed the challenge of a sales environment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared for a competitive environment and know your stuff as far as musical instruments."

What don't you like about working at Guitar Center?

"You can never do enough as far as numbers. If a worker has one down month in a statistic that he or she is usually strong in, they will still get written up. Morning meetings are unpaid. We were forced to sell horrible warranties that did not provide customers with the services they needed. Also technology for the company is slow to evolve and full of bugs when it is released."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Use more of a big picture approach. Do not nitpick certain statistics when there is no history of a problem over the long term."

"Great experience, tons of contacts but it costed me a lot of loosing sleep."

What do you like about working at Guitar Center?

"I could meet many great people in the industry every day."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure that you are ready for what they are expecting from you so it don't overwhelm."

What don't you like about working at Guitar Center?

"It expected too much without conditions to perform so."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to understand that buying a guitar is not like buying lemons at the grocery store."

What do you like about working at Guitar Center?

"I love the safety side of my job, and training associates."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be ready for multiple questions regarding workplace safety related questions."

What don't you like about working at Guitar Center?

"No advancement and I travel 80 miles round trip daily."

What do you like about working at Guitar Center?

"Every day is a brand new day, it is always a blast at the job."

What don't you like about working at Guitar Center?

"The pay is horrible, some people sell and don't have to do anything else."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They better start running the store better because a lot of people are going to leave."