Pretty good - Cast Member Sephora Employee Review

4.0
Sep 25, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Sephora is a great way to gain knowledge about the beauty industry. It really is all about how hard you try. You won't get a ton of training, so you kind of have to teach yourself if you want to be really successful, but if you're a beauty junkie, it's a great place to be. Work/life balance for me was great, but I had a great relationship with my manager.

Cons

Retail is just a tough place to be for a life-long career because they expect so much out of you with little compensation. You will almost always have crazy hours and you deal with unappreciative customers constantly. It's a pretty good place to be if you're in retail though.

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Cons

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Pros

fun getting gratis and hosting in-store events, meeting brand ambassadors/managers, socializing with clients

Cons

manager created a weird environment -- coaching moments were sometimes extremely aggressive for a retail environment; strict on not applying makeup to clients unless they purchase a service. once made me move from a disabled client quickly because I was "spending too much time with them" and to further boost the store sales. felt extremely unethical.

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