hope it's better than it was! - Color Specialist Sephora Employee Review

4.0
15 Jan 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

the training, environment and freebies i love products so learning about them was a joy every day i also learned about skincare and this information was valuable to me to find a new job in a related field from the experience I gained and the information obtained hands on and in trainings

Cons

the management was not fair and did not promote from within they also went through about 4 store directors in the 2 years that I was there fired 2 women with years of experience and hired 4 men with no experience in their place after a new director (male) came in to replace the female director

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Support, Benefits, Growth, Community, & Skillfulness

Cons

Pay, Customers, Hours, Uniforms, & Management at times

3.0
18 Mar 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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