Sephora reviews

Oh how the mighty have fallen. Like many current employees I'm blowing the dust off my resume and updating my linkedin page. I say blowing off the dust because many of us have been at Sephora for years, and now we recognize how awful the culture and corporate leadership has become. It's sad on a personal level because many of us grew up professionally with Sephora and we used to be part of a nurturing and successful corporate leadership team. Over the last few years the upper tiers or the Executive Team have changed hands including our CEO aka 'Calculator and Chief' Calvin McDonald. The CEO is all about numbers and oh boy do we hear about numbers when he takes the stage at events, we all snore through his lack luster presentations and sneak peaks at our phones and whisper to our neighbors while he tries to explain over and over again why Sephora is "WINNING" in retail but at the same time LOSING amongst it's own employees. You see, our new Executive Team puts money first and culture last, it puts corporate earnings above employee's value. I say this because Sephora is doing tremendous in sales but at the cost of employee's value aka salary/bonus. We all saw another blockbuster year at Sephora but the Executive team lead by Calvin McDonald managed our money so poorly that we all lost 1/2 of our earned bonus, yes HALF. I say our money because the money that was mismanaged was the same pot of money our bonus comes from. Anyone who knows Sephora corporate knows we all live and depend on our annual bonus since Sephora does not offer competitive salaries, and this year the Executive Team arrogantly spent our money on "Doubling the Business" a complete and fabricated nonsense business goal because it sounds catchy. The coming months are going to be brutal for the top heads at Sephora, as they attempt to explain to their bosses in France as to why there is an employee base mass exodus. And when they learn that the money was just one of the issues and that the main reason people are leaving is because of the vanishing of the Sephora Culture and Heart, then maybe, MAYBE they will realize that the empire is burning from within and not from outside forces. I'm sad, I really am that Sephora is no longer anywhere close to being the best place to work and it's a real shame.

Retail hours can be hectic at times.