Horrible leadership/ team collaboration within Merchandise Finance - Associate Financial Analyst Ulta Beauty Employee Review

3.0
Jun 17, 2018
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Pros

The vendors coming into the office made work fun. I wanted to work here to help contribute to more success at one of my former favorite stores. Vendors would bring in makeup goodies and give makeovers, eyelash applications and more.

Cons

The team I had spent an unfortunate too long amount of time on trying to prove myself was a waste of time. The hours spent on this team were 70-80 hour work weeks and never went acknowledged. There is no direction in reaching a high level of success or receiving a 5 on your review. Unless your "god's gift" as my once manager said you will receive this rating to reach your full bonus potential. Also, once told me i was over paid for my position because his insecurity was coming out in arrogance and truly never gave me a chance to learn a position i was completely new to, switching fields from accounting to finance. Clearly his weakness and insecurities are disguised by his arrogance. I was approached by other teams w/in finance to move departments but i made the choice to stick around and keep proving myself. Horrible decision. Unless you want a leader who gives you data entry work and acts unprofessional at work by swearing and talking nonsense half the time work in this department. Also, there is NO "team" in this department. Asking questions is not welcome, if you do, its a stupid question and you'll be returned with figure it out yourself which in turn leads to 5 extra hours, nights and weekends. Also, members of this team were extremely arrogant and condescending. IF you want to be talked to like your a child and know nothing join this team. I'm telling you, work in any other team but this one if you want a fulfilling career. This team is very judgemental and not accepting.

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