Underpaid and overworked. - Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
28 Apr 2016
Recommend
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Pros

After 90 days you can buy gear at "cost" which can save a few bucks. Everything else about the job is terrible.

Cons

Managers under appreciated by corporate, so they don't appreciate their workers. The commission is bull, if you do the math you only need to make a buck or two an hour more somewhere to make the same pay annually. Yeah you can buy gear at "cost" but you'll never make enough to buy what you really want. Most locations are also an HR nightmare that treat customers like meat. 2 years working here and nothing has changed since day 1.

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5.0
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Pros

Very flexible with hours working.

Cons

Difficult to stray away from Hal Leonard curriculum sometimes, but may be different now.

3.0
1 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Sweet deals and discounts Coworkers are very pleasant to work with Good as extra income Good for aspiring musicians to network with experts of the industry

Cons

Obsolete softwares Scheduling system software that is thenmost imperative tool as of it will be the backbone of a lesson lead for your team of instructors success it's also somewhat obsolete amd constantly crashing both IT and Upper management are aware. IT is very diligent and pleasant to work with but Upper management expects their lessons lead to work and deliver at 100% capacity while they continue to have an operating system that only works at 75% capacity, just beware of that and if you're willing to work under those conditions. With that put there go at your own discretion. Nobody gets Christmas/winter holiday vacation time off, also go at your own discretion on that one especially if you have kids and family looking for work-life-balance.

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