don't look for a career here. - Anonymous employee Sephora Employee Review

3.0
Aug 6, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

amazing people, the company culture is great, you will learn a lot working there and it's a great place to start your career in the beauty industry (or as a part time job to supplement your income).

Cons

employees are paid well below industry standard and made to feel grateful for even that ("because we appreciate you so much here's a nine cent raise for the year"). management is a mess and they think by replacing all of their employees their issues will stop...then act surprised when the new group of people get just as disgruntled as the ones who just left--the issue isn't who you hire, it's how you treat them. very little room for growth within the company and they love to make false promises. they expect full time employees to give their entire lives to the company for very little in return.

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3.0
Mar 18, 2026
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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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