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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
1.0
Aug 15, 2023

DO NOT WORK HERE

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There’s cool people that work here in lower mgmt

Cons

They DO NOT care about their employees. People are underpaid and they write it off as having a “cool job.” There is no growth. They’ll most likely put someone younger or inexperienced over you and make your life miserable. They are consistently doing layoffs so your job is never safe. Upper management is awful and only cares about bringing home their bag of money and will screw you over while doing it. Their entire upper manager mgmt team is white males and everything they do is insanely white male centric. They hired a ton of diverse employees and then laid them all off from the marketing and AR teams. Women get no respect unless you’re a woman who hates other women at the company. Be prepared to have your work stollen by upper mgmt, a really low raise (or no raise at all), and then to be let go… again seems cool but this place is AWFUL. OH and their severance is really bad so don’t except to make a lot of money here… unless ofc your a white male in upper mgmt.

1.0
Sep 3, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Discounted guitars - occasionally. Sometimes nice events.

Cons

The management is awful. If you have any kind of disability you will be treated poorly. You will have to fight for every day off that you need. And if you take FMLA your coworkers will talk poorly of you and your managers will be angry with you. People are randomly let go - all the time. They really use their 'right to work state' status there. Also the industry is declining. This is not a company to join for a long career. The turnover rate for every department is incredibly high.

1.0
Mar 25, 2019

It's like Game of Thrones with Guitars.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Super cool offices. Friendly / cool / chill facade (only).

Cons

It's like Game of Thrones with Guitars.

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