sad - Retail Sales Associate Guitar Center Employee Review

2.0
31 July 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

employee discount. its literally this. also you get to hang out in a store filled with (generally) cool coworkers.

Cons

So so so much push for pro coverage sales. and incredibly punishing as well. They want you to be above like 35% to be eligible for commission, as of when I last worked there, You need to sell $375 per hour to make 1% commission. I'm not kidding. So, if you know you will be in an area that isn't crazy busy, good luck

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5.0
16 July 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Management takes good care of you

Cons

No complaints that I can think of

1.0
21 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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