Guitar Center Reviews

2.8

41% would recommend to a friend

(2,732 total reviews)
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Gabe Dalporto

28% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

Guitar Center has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,732 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Guitar Center employee rating is 21% below average for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
1 Jul 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It has occasional fun moments. You meet cool people and get to see people get excited about music.

Cons

They will work you to the bone and then throw you out like garbage. Ops is the worst position at the company by a light year. You are forced to do whatever the sales people are too good to do. You have to regularly clean a biohazard of a bathroom where there can be anything from a toilet seat that has been pooped all over to crack pipes and heroin needles. They don’t care if you’re good at your job, helpful to customers, if you regularly stay late and help management close the store, or how much you put in to keep everything going. They only care about money and they will use and abuse the passion you have for music to their advantage. This place is the worst.

3.0
1 Jul 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Sweet deals and discounts Coworkers are very pleasant to work with Good as extra income Good for aspiring musicians to network with experts of the industry

Cons

Obsolete softwares Scheduling system software that is thenmost imperative tool as of it will be the backbone of a lesson lead for your team of instructors success it's also somewhat obsolete amd constantly crashing both IT and Upper management are aware. IT is very diligent and pleasant to work with but Upper management expects their lessons lead to work and deliver at 100% capacity while they continue to have an operating system that only works at 75% capacity, just beware of that and if you're willing to work under those conditions. With that put there go at your own discretion. Nobody gets Christmas/winter holiday vacation time off, also go at your own discretion on that one especially if you have kids and family looking for work-life-balance.

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