KLOS Guitars Reviews

3.5

61% would recommend to a friend

(17 total reviews)

45% positive business outlook

KLOS Guitars has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 17 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The KLOS Guitars employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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17 reviews
1.0
4 Apr 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The coworkers were amazing. I became close friends with a lot of them. It was easy to take off work. There were no repercussions to not showing up or showing up late or not even having to call and let them know.

Cons

One of the owners is a misogynist that verbally abuses his employees daily, but calls it "tough love". When enough employees complain about the way they're treated, the brothers go into a long monologue about how their parents didn't hug them enough and it made them strong and we should be stronger too. There is a difference between constructive criticism and berating verbal abuse. They scam customers to make a few extra bucks any way that they can. They don't pay employees enough considering what they have to deal with. No benefits of any kind. They ask their employees to leave "positive reviews" for their company on social media platforms to make them look better. Owners will promote you to "lead" and give you tons more responsibility and job tasks, but offer no pay increase or incentive. Being lead usually just means they have one person they can yell at when something goes wrong. They use the excuse "work harder and maybe we can start giving raises" but never actually follow through. Your opinions and suggestions are invalid and they don't care how qualified you are to give advice, they will ignore any and all even though they try to convince you otherwise. They try to tell us that the "workers in China are happy to do their job in worse conditions and less pay than this so you have nothing to complain about". They play obvious favorites with employees. If you work overtime, they switch you to salary to avoid paying you more. Not a good environment for women. You will be treated as less than.

1.0
4 Apr 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Co-workers were fun and made it worth staying there for as long as I did.

Cons

Pay was poor. Technicians made no more than $11 per hour and management did not make more than $13. This is inexcusable as a company who's cheapest instrument is $500 starting. They also do not pay any overtime, have zero benefits, and do not follow OSHA standards. The founding brothers are consistently bad at handling any situation involving another person. If an employee makes a mistake, no matter how large or small or if it can be fixed, they are berated and made to feel like less than a person. One employee had started to stalk and follow home another employee. This was written off as "outside of work drama" and "just boy-girl stuff." They have no HR department because the owners say there is "no need for one."

2.0
17 Mar 2019

Full time worker

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Employee's are nice and fun to talk to, pizza provided my management monthly.

Cons

They expect the quality of your work to be perfect like a robot. They do a one month evaluation when you start and at the end if you are a "good fit," you will be able to continue your employment with the company. There are no benefits, no HR department, pay stays the same.

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