Corporate Office - Anonymous employee Guitar Center Employee Review

2.0
8 Apr 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great people work in the office if you want to sit around talking about music all day. If you like noise its awesome, music blaring out of offices, people usually playing guitar or drumming on something.

Cons

Passes the buck. Many people get away with doing nonproductive busy work while those who are working productively are micromanaged. Everybody has their favorites.

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Guitar Center Response
9y
Thanks for the review, and I'm sorry your time with us wasn't positive. Your advice is great and fostering diversity both in terms ethnic and gender parity is one of my initiatives. A UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders states that the Return On Equity for the top 25 companies in the study is at least 74% higher than for the entire sample of 400 companies. Short version: it's not just the right thing to do, it's good for business.

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