MEH they always are trying to make it hard to make money, - Recensione dipendente - Sales Associate presso Guitar Center

You get a good discount

You work retail, which is difficult

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

- 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.