Do not work here! - Anonymous employee Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
10 Apr 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The discount is great and you find a lot of networking opportunities if you're a musician aside from that there's really not much good to be said

Cons

Management is something out of a nightmare, the company has zero respect for their employees, they refuse to give more than 20 hours a week to anyone regardless of how knowledgeable they are or how long they've been with the company, the commission rate is embarrassingly low starting at 0.25%, management spends more time blaming others for their shortcomings than they do actually finding solutions, and to top it off there is zero opportunity to move up in this company.

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Pros

- Plenty of capable individual contributors doing real work. - The brand and the business itself are legitimate — the problems are organizational.

Cons

- Senior leadership is politically driven rather than outcome-driven. Strategic initiatives stall out, and leaders spend more energy assigning or shifting blame than actually diagnosing and fixing problems. - Some parts of the org operate on deference to the top. Honest assessments get softened into whatever narrative leadership wants to hear, which makes real cross-functional work difficult. - Senior leaders do not consistently advocate for their own teams. When things get political, self-preservation takes precedence over backing the people underneath, and capable managers end up exposed.

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