Never coming back - Anonymous employee Sephora Employee Review

3.0
Nov 11, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company is moving fast and expects you to move twenty times the speed of normal. This allows you to gain tons of exposure to many departments in a short space of time. Free products Occasional sponsored lunch

Cons

Upper level management is a joke. Only friends get promoted within departments and the rest get left to be forgotten about. Gossiping around every corner and not enough meaningful work getting done. All work is sugar coated to make the company not appear like it’s failing. Pay is not competitive in the slightest. Easily $10-$15k under market value.

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Pros

Loved learning more about products and working with most of the other team members. Helping people find products that worked for them was really fun.

Cons

Managers are WEIRD. They play favorites and will talk about it while you are standing right there. Practically make you beg for hours. If you are anything other than the current viral makeup style look, you will get less opportunities. Leadership acts like mean high school girls. Working here took away a lot of my passion for the beauty industry for a long time. Also, when it comes to gratis - why are you letting certain managers walk out with 4 bags of things that they have hand picked? Then leaving whatever they discarded to be handed out??? Constantly had missing gratis from my bag because of managers going through the products they wanted. Scheduling is not flexible or even makes sense. Whoever they like gets better shifts. Would constantly have extra shifts added with no notice until an hour before the shift. Or shifts taken away because a favorite wanted them.

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