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Fender Musical Instruments reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(297 total reviews)
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Andy Mooney

71% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Fender Musical Instruments has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 297 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fender Musical Instruments employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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297 reviews
2.0
Feb 14, 2018

customer relations/direct sales

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working for the famed Fender brand. Dressing down and a casual workplace. Talking and playing Fender gear all day. Decent pay for what you do. Some really great people to work with. Some department is always getting free (good) food so your chances of swiping some leftovers is pretty good! There's guitars laying around all over the place so if you play, it's pretty cool. Jeff Belke is one of the greatest people in the organization and you would be blessed to meet or work with/for him.

Cons

Saying "hello" or "good morning" to people in other departments and they stare right through you and say nothing as they walk by, (it is Scottsdale btw-wanna be Beverly Hills if you don't know). Certain managers will try to humiliate you on the floor in front of everybody with impunity, just cause they can, lots of passive aggressive back stabbing. Incomplete or different micromanagement from different supervisors can be challenging at times. If they had any quality assurance keeping people in check the milieu might change for the better. The place has much potential for being a fantastic place to work and some really great people, but it is a stressful place with a lot of intangibles that need to be addressed, but it's too big and complacent to change. They try to make it cool and hip, but without a respectful human factor you roll the dice and take your chances. If you know you're good at what you do, "go for it!"

2.0
May 28, 2023

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Teams that get the work done have an incredible work ethic and collaboration. Listening to music (sporadically) through so many talented musicians that work here. I guess informal dress code, decent benefits and bragging that you work for an American icon.

Cons

Don’t come here for rock and roll culture. It simply doesn’t exist. You’ll be looking at Excel sheets all day long and building narrative for your executives to chew on and blame people in different teams (embarrassingly in front of other people) for their own constant improvisation and lack of patience to see plans stick. It’s very painful to see great people get burned for speaking up and providing ideas that don’t line up to singular views of the world.

2.0
Oct 22, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Access to cheap guitars. Wok with cool people/ musicians. Surrounded by music.

Cons

Upper level does not understand the value of product design. They see design as people who create logos, bandjam posters and beautiful mock-ups. The key leader of digital product doesn’t know how to play guitars nor basic knowledge of music theory. Make design decisions without design background, only based on personal taste and $$. No one can answer the question of who are our users? No official study about the users and personas. Poor user research and Usertesting process due to lack of knowledge and support from the upper management. Key leaders doesn’t know what is the difference between UX and UI design. Doesn’t know how to use technology. Micromanagement and toxic design review process. No one dare to express their honest opinions while the The person is in the room even false decisions are being made.

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