The absolute worst - Senior Beauty Advisor Sephora Employee Review

1.0
13 Oct 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The other SBAs, the BAs and brand reps are supportive, encouraging and just down right the best people to work with. When I resigned.

Cons

The Store management (SM and ASM) are horrible. More often than not use bullying tactics so you go along with their rubbish. Lack leadership qualities, no empathy, no support or training provided. You're just basically thrown in and expected to know everything but aren't provided the right tools to do so and then questioned why something was done incorrectly. Racism and homophobia are evident and when multiple complaints were put through to area manager and HR these complaints were ignored, brushed over or non-genuine apologies were given. There is zero room for development, upskilling or growth. And if you don't conform to their bullying tactics on the BAs, you are cast aside and told you're not good enough for your role. Don't even bother applying unless feeling like your back in high school is your thing.

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Pros

Support, Benefits, Growth, Community, & Skillfulness

Cons

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3.0
18 Mar 2026
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Recommend
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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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