Great work if you are motivated and willing to work full time. - Independent Beauty Consultant Mary Kay Employee Review

4.0
Jan 27, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Best home based business as far as commissions, at 50%. Choose your hours, when and where you work, level of inventory, and level of effort. There is no limit if you put your heart and soul into it.

Cons

You cannot work part time if you truly want to make money and promotions, as they advertise to new consultants. In order to receive bonuses, win the cars and trips, you have to recruit and you have to carry lots of inventory and have your calendar fully booked at all times.

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5.0
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Pros

Best work place culture I have ever seen!

Cons

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3.0
Feb 17, 2026
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Pros

Wonderful coworkers, amenities at the Mary Kay Building, and overall a mostly pleasant place to work from a day to day perspective.

Cons

Senior management seems totally lost. Strategy is ever shifting, and seems based more on whatever management's current flight of fancy happens to be. Little to nothing has been done to address the very real long-term issues related to the business. There's a reluctance to meaningfully change or address systemic issues leading to an existential risk to the business. It's so bad, the former CEO is suing the current CEO for mismanaging the company. They are father and son. It's that bad.

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