Great place to work... if you hate yourself. - Project Manager Guitar Center Employee Review

1.0
6 Dec 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Minus the VP's and Executives, most people here are great... They all love music, so how can they be bad right? Oh wait, they could call in sick to work every other day leaving you to cover their projects while management does nothing to better the situation.

Cons

The pay is very low for anyone less than a director so good luck finding an apartment you can afford within 1 hour of the office. The 101 traffic will consume your soul. There might be an option to park your van in the parking lot and live there...

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
21 Apr 2026
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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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